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Auction: 25005 - The Carrington and Pallas Collections of Exceptional English and Anglo-Gallic Gold Coins and Proof Sets
Lot: 572

(x) NGC AU | Henry IV (1399-1413), Light Coinage, Quarter-Noble, current 12 April 1412 - 1413, Tower (London), + hEnRIC x DI x GRA x REX x ANGL, Royal Shield in double tressure of eight arches, lys above, trefoils and annulets flanking in fields, rev. + EXALTABITVR : In : GLORIA : floriate cross, leopards in angles, lys at centre, all in double tressure of eight arches, 1.395g [21.50grns], 10h, i.m. cross pattée (F A Walters, "The Coinage of Henry IV", (Numismatic Chronicle IV, 1905), p. 298, no. 4 this coin; Schneider I, 212; North 1357; S.1717), a scarcely perceptible scratch across shield and lightly clipped with some brightness, otherwise residually lustrous and attractively uniform for strike, very fine, the reverse bolder, extremely rare and with an exceptional pedigree, in NGC Black 'Carrington' holder, graded Almost Uncirculated (Cert. #8534366-011)

Provenance

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


SNC, March 1988, no. 1102 - "very rare, short of flan otherwise about VF" - £700


Richard Cyril Lockett [Part X: English IV], Glendining, 26-27 April 1960, lot 3998* - "scratch across shield, otherwise very fine and extremely rare" - £52.0.0


Alexander Mann [of Neath Lodge, Kew Gardens], Sotheby's, 29-31 October 1917, lot 229* - "very fine, extremely rare" - £8.10.0 [Spink]


Frederick A Walters, F.S.A., F.R.N.S., Sotheby's, 26-30 May 1913, lot 230* - "very fine and extremely rare" - £6.17.6 [Mann]


~ "The Coinage of Henry IV", (Numismatic Chronicle IV, 1905), p. 298, no. 4 this coin ~



Possibly:


J E D Longstaffe, Sotheby's, 20 January 1903, lot 262 - "21grns, very rare, but only well preserved" - £2.5.0 [Spink]


https://www.ngccoin.uk/certlookup/8534366-011/NGCDetails/

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Sold for
£1,900

Starting price
£500