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Auction: 25005 - The Carrington and Pallas Collections of Exceptional English and Anglo-Gallic Gold Coins and Proof Sets
Lot: 609

(x) NGC AU55 | Henry VII (1485-1509), Sovereign, Type IV, c. 1502-1504, Tower (London), (m.m.) hENRICVS x DEI x GRA' x REX x AnGL' x ET x FRAN' x DnS' x HIB'n', King enthroned holding orb and sceptre, throne with high canopy, elaborate back and broad seat, crown, single-arched, rev. (m.m.) : IhESVS : AVTEM : TRAnSIEnS : PER : MEDIVM : ILLORVM : IBAT : x : double saltire stops, Royal shield on Tudor rose, all in tressure of ten arches, leopards and lys in alternate arches, 15.327g [236.53grns], 7h, m.m. lys/dragon (Ruding, Pl. IV, 4; Kenyon 3, and, Pl. VII, 47; Grierson, class D; Potter & Winstanley IVb, Pl. X, 5 same die; SCBI [Ashmolean], 79-80 same dies; Montagu II, 652* same dies; R D Beresford-Jones 23 same dies; Roth 235 = Seaby FPL 1 (June 1926), no. 7 - £26.0.0; TINC, Pl. XXIII, 4 this coin; Schneider I, 550; North 1692/1; S.2175), a trace of doubling to obverse legends, otherwise on a pleasingly full round flan, a really good very fine, extremely rare and a superlative connoisseur's cabinet Tudor centrepiece, in NGC Black 'Carrington' holder, conservatively graded AU55 (Cert. #8534361-003)

Provenance

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


M Amstell, by private treaty with "Carrington", Winter 1984


Reverend Arnold Mallinson, Spink 39, 6 December 1984, lot 82 [and Colour Plate] - £20,000 [Amstell]


SNC, January-February 1923, no. 14533 - "A choice specimen, almost F.D.C. RR." - £42.0.0


Major P W P Carlyon-Britton, collection of English Hammered Gold sold to Spink, 1920


https://www.ngccoin.com/certlookup/8534361-003/55/

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Sold for
£145,000

Starting price
£60000