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Auction: 25005 - The Carrington and Pallas Collections of Exceptional English and Anglo-Gallic Gold Coins and Proof Sets
Lot: 555

(x) Henry III (1216-1272), Gold Penny of 20-Pence, authorised 16 August 1257, Tower (London), Willem FitzOtto of Gloucester (The King's Goldsmith), h | ENRIC ' REX •I•I•I'• King seated on ornate throne, holding orb and sceptre, rev. WILL | EM : O | N LV | NDE: pellet-barred Ns, voided long cross with lobed terminals, five-leafed petals and trio of pellets in angles, 2.951g [45.54grns], 5h, no m.m. (Evans [NumChron, 1900], Pl. XI, no. 3 this coin mentioned; Lawrence, [BNJ IX, 1912], pp. 145-179, Type I this coin mentioned; Schneider I, 1 same dies [Rome]; North 1000; BMC GHB 238 same dies; S.1375), only the deftest crimps and surface marks to an otherwise uniformly and proudly struck-up example of this English and European Medieval's greatest numismatic icon, on a full round albeit oversized flan of buttery yellow-gold fabric, just TWO specimens remain outside of public or published collections; with this example on only its second auction outing in over 125 Years since documentation, the last time setting a Guinness World Record! (Cert. #8534360-001)

Provenance

The "Carrington" Collection of Exceptional English and Anglo-Gallic Gold Coins


M Amstell, by private treaty with "Carrington", June 1985



Emery May Norweb, Part I, Spink 45, 13 June 1985, lot 122 - £65,000 [Amstell]


Messrs Spink & Son, by private treaty with Norweb, May 1967 - $22,000


Charles J Firth of 46 King Street, Hoyland, Barnsley, Yorkshire, († 1955)


Leonard Forrer Junior, by private treaty with Firth, 1949


Virgil Michael Brand († 1932), collection dispersed by his estate, from 1935


Messrs Spink & Son, by private treaty with Brand, November 1919


Messrs Spink Family Collection (cf. Numismatic Circular, April 1908, Col. 10540)


Lt.-Colonel Henry Leslie-Ellis (1852 - †12 April 1918), purchased by Spink, by April 1908


~ "The First Gold Coins of England", Sir John Evans (Numismatic Chronicle, 1900, pp. 221-222), no. 3 this coin mentioned ~


"Found in Italy", 'probably on its Eastern side in recent times', before 1900

Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.

Estimate
£150,000 to £250,000

Starting price
£120000

Sale 25005 Notices
Has been withdrawn at the request of the vendor's family