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Auction: 25005 - The Carrington and Pallas Collections of Exceptional English and Anglo-Gallic Gold Coins and Proof Sets
Lot: 579

(x) NGC AU58 | Henry VI, First Reign (1422-1461), Rosette-Mascle Issue, Half-Noble, 1430-1431, Tower (London), h | ENRIC * DI * GRA * REX * AnGL * Z * FRAnC *, rosette stops, King standing facing in ship, holding sword and shield, ropes 2/1, ornaments 1-1-1, quatrefoils 3/3, rev. (m.m.) DOMINE * nE In * FVRORE * TVO * ARGVAS . ME, rosette stops, mascle after nE. floriate cross, large h at centre, additional lys in second quarter, 3.466g [53.50grns], 9h, m.m. lys (Montagu II, 918 [UNIQUE, 53grns] = Richard Manley-Foster 1903, 35; Bruun 1925, 421* = Ryan 52 = Schneider I, 310 same dies; Bliss [1916], 218* = Lockett II, 1440; BNJ 1938, p. 226, Pl. IV, no. 8; Schneider I, 309-311; North 1441; S.1819), a superb cabinet piece of this fractional Medieval gold issue, with a soft honey-golden tone overlying lustrous original fields, a really good very fine, exceptionally rare, in NGC Black 'Carrington' holder, graded AU58 (Cert. #8534369-010)

Provenance

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


M Amstell, by private treaty, 1988


SNC, September 1985, no. 5684* - "very rare, an attractive piece, good VF" - £2,750


https://www.ngccoin.com/certlookup/8534369-010/58/

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Sold for
£10,000

Starting price
£2500