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Auction: 25005 - The Carrington and Pallas Collections of Exceptional English and Anglo-Gallic Gold Coins and Proof Sets
Lot: 575

(x) NGC AU55 | Henry V (1413-1422), Class G, Quarter-Noble, Tower (London), + hEnRIC (mullet) DI •' GRA •' REX •' AnGL', annulet stops, lys above Royal Shield in double tressure of eight arches, rev. + EXALTABITVR * In • GLORIA, floriate cross, leopards in angles, lys at centre, all in double tressure, 1.727g [26.68grns], 6h, m.m. pierced cross (Evelyn Rashleigh [1909], 708b this coin [Henry VI, Annulet Issue]; Lockett 4294; Schneider I, 266; North 1384; S.1758), the deftest hints of peripheral striking softness, otherwise a truly sublime coin, sumptuously ochre cabinet-toned and uniformly crisp in the strike, practically extremely fine, and truly rare in this prestigious state, in NGC Black 'Carrington' holder, strictly graded AU55 (Cert. #8534366-013)

Provenance

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


Seaby, by private treaty, 1982 - £575


Evelyn Rashleigh, Sotheby's, June 1909, lot 708b* - "extremely fine and excessively rare"


https://www.ngccoin.uk/certlookup/8534366-013/55/

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Sold for
£3,800

Starting price
£800