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Auction: 25005 - The Carrington and Pallas Collections of Exceptional English and Anglo-Gallic Gold Coins and Proof Sets
Lot: 625

(x) NGC AU58 | Henry VIII, with Katharine of Aragon or Katharine Howard (1509-1547), Second Coinage, Gold Halfcrown of the Double Rose, Tower (London), (m.m) hENRIC ?: 8 : DI ': G ': R ': AGL ': Z : FRA', single and double saltire stops, crowned shield, fields plain, rev. (m.m) RVTILANS : ROSA : SINE : SPINA :, double saltire stops, crowned double Tudor rose, dividing h-K, 1.835g [28.20grns], 9h, m.m. rose (Drabble I, 133 same dies; Schneider I, 600; North 1794; S.2285), bright and lustrous, a most pleasingly bold very fine, rare thus, in NGC Black 'Carrington' holder, graded AU58 (Cert. #8534367-010)

Provenance

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


Emery May Norweb, Part 3, Spink 56, 19 November 1986, lot 901 - "very fine and extremely fine and rare" - £820


Messrs Spink & Son, by private treaty



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Sold for
£6,500

Starting price
£2500