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Auction: 25005 - The Carrington and Pallas Collections of Exceptional English and Anglo-Gallic Gold Coins and Proof Sets
Lot: 590

(x) NGC AU | Richard III, in the name of Edward IV or V (1483-1485), Gold Angel, (m.m.) EDWARD .' DI .' GRA : REX : AnGL . Z FRANC :., saltire stops, St. Michael vanquishing the Dragon, rev. (m.m.) PER | CRVCEM TVA ' SALVA nOS XPC ' REDEMPT ', ship surmounted by square-topped shield and mast dividing E and Rose, 5.19g [80.09grns], 9h, m.m. boar's head / dimidiated sun-and-rose (Lord Thurlow [1851], 365 = Evelyn Rashleigh [1909], 741 ['broken and repaired']; C E Blunt, "The Coinage of Edward V" [BNJ, 1937], p. 224, no. 2 & Plate, no. 4 same obverse die [Richard III]; Schneider I, 483; North 1670; S.2150), delicately removed from jewellery at reverse 12 o'clock, and with traces of clipping to an elongated and bright but handsomely retoned flan, superb and uniform for strike, a bolder very fine thus, and OF THE HIGHEST RARITY, but six specimens known of this transitional Pyx Mark / Regnal name combination; extraordinary, practically peerless and considered the finest known specimen, in NGC Black 'Carrington' holder, graded Almost Uncirculated ~ Cleaned (Cert. #8534362-005)

Provenance

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


Sharps Pixley, Spink 72, 9 November 1989, lot 8* - "irregular flan with a slight trace of mounting, otherwise extremely fine and excessively rare (believed only six specimens known)" - £11,500


Richard Duncan Beresford-Jones, Spink 29, June 1983, lot 18*


Harry Alexander Parsons, Second Collection, Glendining, 11-13 May 1954, lot 23* - "very fine and excessively rare, only four examples known with boars head mintmark" - £210.0.0


~ Exhibited at the Anniversary Meeting of the British Numismatic Society: "Mr Parsons showed an Angel of Edward V, i.m. obv. Boar's Head, rev. Sun-and-Rose, the third known and finest specimen", 29 November 1946 ~



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