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Auction: 25005 - The Carrington and Pallas Collections of Exceptional English and Anglo-Gallic Gold Coins and Proof Sets
Lot: 431

(x) NGC AU58 | Elizabeth I (1558-1603), First Issue, Double Rose Noble of 30-Shillings or Fine Sovereign, 1 January 1559 - 31 July 1560, Tower, (m.m.) ELIZABETH : D'· G'· ANG'· : FRA'· Z : HIB': REGINA · Queen seated on ornamented throne, adorned with fine lattice work enclosing pellets, pillars decorated with five smaller pellets, holding orb and sceptre, unchained portcullis below, breaking ornate tressure, rev. (m.m.) A : DNO'. FACTV.' EST : ISTV.' Z : EST : MIRABI'· IN : OCV·' NRIS.' Royal arms in centre of full-blown Tudor Rose, 15.152g [233.83grns], 10h, m.m. lys (Montagu III, 31 different dies [A1]; Murdoch I, 566 = Huth 62 different dies [A1]; Thellusson 55 different dies [A1]; Ryan 268 this coin; Lockett 1948 different dies [A1]; Brown & Comber A2i this coin listed [UNIQUE]; Raynes 114 = Schneider I, 729 [A2ii] different dies; Holloway 01-02-001; North 1978; S.2511), deft rub to visage, otherwise uniformly struck on a beautifully broad planchet; with a subtle and pleasing cabinet tone overlying original surfaces, an attractive and wholesomely bold very fine, UNIQUE; and especially desirable 'Coronation' issue for the Virgin Queen, struck no sooner than she had uttered the 118th Psalm at Hatfield House, in NGC Black 'Pallas' holder, graded AU58 (Cert. #8534310-007)

Provenance

The "Pallas" Collection of English Coins


Seaby, by private treaty (ref. 770934), 26 April 1977 - £3,600 [reduced from ticket of £3,950, then £3,750]


Ex 'SOL' Collection, purchased in tranches by Seaby, from 1974 - £2,450 [ticketed for stock, 1977]


Glendining, 17-18 November 1971, lot 22* - "very fine and very rare" - £550


M W Hall, Glendining, 3 October 1963, lot 136* - "weakly struck on the Queen's face, otherwise very fine and very rare" - £440.0.0


Vincent John Eustace Ryan, First Portion, Glendining, 28-30 June 1950, lot 268* - "very fine and a rare mint mark" - £38.0.0


The first issue Sovereigns of Elizabeth I, with mintmark lys and the reading Z for ET, are extremely rare. They are struck from three obverse dies (B&C A2 with one pellet after regina (2 dies), and B&C A1 and A3 with two pellets after regina (1 die)), and three reverse dies (B&C A1 reading mira; B&C A2 reading mirabi and nris, and B&C A3 reading mirabi and nri). Only one other example has appeared at auction in the last forty years and it is possible that as few as seven exist in total (4 B&C A1; 1 B&C A2(i) (Ryan 268); 1 B&C A2(ii)/1 (Schneider 729); and 1 B&C A3 (BM)).

B&C A1 [4 known, 1 die pair] - MIRA IN OCVL NRIS
a) Comber (October 2020, lot 1) = 'Property of a Lady', Spink 168 (15 April 2004, lot 152) = Spink Numismatic Circular (December 1972, 11566) = A Magnaguti (5 October 1959, lot 187) [POSSIBLY] = Earl of Ducie (5 October 1949, lot 20 - £54.0.0)

b) Clearwater (October 2013, lot 28) = Spink 208 (22 June 2011, lot 664) = Spink, private sale (June 1983) - £10,250 = R C Lockett (Part IV, English II, 11-17 October 1956, lot 1948) = Spink Numismatic Circular (1932, no. 25012) - £40.0.0 = Raymond Carlyon-Britton
c) Thellusson (1931, lot 55*)


d) Ashmolean Museum = Reginald Huth (1927, lot 62 - £31.0.0) = J G Murdoch (Part I, 1903, lot 566) = Lord Dillon (1892) = Thomas Brown (26 July 1869, lot 497 - £3.4.0)
e) George Holloway 1 = Holloway 03-03-002 = Hyman Montagu (Part III, 13-20 November 1896, lot 31) = Samuel Addington, private sale to Montagu (1883); W Gott (12-13 July 1866, lot 84)



B&C A2 [2 known, 2 obverse, 1 new + 1 old A1 reverse die]
i) Ryan 268, this coin - - MIRABI IN OCVL NRIS
ii) Schneider I, 729 = Alderman Horace Hird, private sale (1963) = W L Raynes (1950, lot 114) - MIRA IN OCVL NRIS



B&C A3 [2 known, 1 die pair] - MIRABI IN OCV NRI - 1 Obverse / 1 Reverse Die
- British Museum (BM E.296) - 15.180g = Edward Hawkins (1884)
- T B Clarke-Thornhill (1937, lot 78 - £13.10.0) - small crack in centre of coin = Thellusson (1931, 56 - very fine, but slightly cracked) = Spink Numismatic Circular, November-December 1919, no. 76160 - VF - £12.10.0 = Glendining, 17-18 July 1917, lot 20 - £2.10.0

https://archive.org/details/catalogueofcoins00soth_63/mode/2up?q=%22Fine+Sovereign%2C+first+issue%22 - A H Baldwin, £12.15.0

https://archive.org/details/catalogueofveryv00gle_w4v/page/4/mode/2up?q=%22Fine+Sovereign%2C+first+issue%22

https://archive.org/details/catalogueofvalua00soth_4/mode/2up?q=%22Elizabeth%2C+Fine+sovereign%22

https://archive.org/details/catalogueofgreek00soth_17/page/8/mode/2up?q=%22Elizabeth%2C+Fine+sovereign%22

https://archive.org/details/catalogueofveryc00chri_3/mode/2up?q=%22Elizabeth%2C+Sovereign%22

https://archive.org/details/catalogueofveryc00soth_12/page/40/mode/2up?q=%22Elizabeth%2C+Sovereign%22

https://archive.org/details/catalogueofveryv00soth_10/page/24/mode/2up?q=%22Elizabeth%2C+Sovereign%22

https://archive.org/details/catalogueofveryv00soth_9/page/24/mode/2up?q=%22Elizabeth%2C+Sovereign%22



https://www.ngccoin.uk/certlookup/8534310-007/58/

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Sold for
£48,000

Starting price
£27000