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Auction: 25005 - The Carrington and Pallas Collections of Exceptional English and Anglo-Gallic Gold Coins and Proof Sets
Lot: 616

(x) NGC AU | Henry VIII (1509-1547), Second Coinage, 'Double Ryal' or Sovereign, 1541, [Tariffed at 22s6d], Tower (London), (m.m.) hENRICVS : DEI : GRACIA : REX | + ANGLIE : ET : FRANC .' DNS : hIB .' ., double saltire stops, dies refurbished with re-punched legends, King enthroned, holding sword and sceptre, throne with fretted back, rev. (m.m.) : IhESUS : AVTEM : TRANSIENS : PER : MEDIVM : ILLORVM : IBAT ., Royal shield set on Tudor Rose inside ornate floral tressure, alternating leopards and lys in inner spandrels, plain in outer spandrels, 15.398g [237.627grns], 2h, m.m. lys 3 [over sunburst] / arrow (Schneider I, 570; Whitton dies O1e/R8; North 1782; S.2267), a small graffito mark in left field, otherwise a lovely full round specimen with usual die softness to portrait, richly honey-golden cabinet toned, a most wholesome very fine, and equally rare with only fourteen examples traced; this with a striking 19th Century pedigree, in NGC Black 'Carrington' holder, graded Almost Uncirculated (Cert. #8534361-005)

Provenance

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


M Amstell, by private treaty, 3 April 1987 - £6,750


Sotheby, 23 June 1884, lot 124 - "extremely scarce and fair" - £8.15.0



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Sold for
£19,000

Starting price
£25000