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Auction: 25005 - The Carrington and Pallas Collections of Exceptional English and Anglo-Gallic Gold Coins and Proof Sets
Lot: 627

(x) NGC MS62 | *Top Pop* | Henry VIII, with Jane Seymour (1509-1547), Second Coinage, Gold Halfcrown, Tower (London), (m.m.) hEnRIC ' x 8 x D 'x GRA 'x REX 'x AGL 'x Z x FR', single saltire stops, crowned shield dividing h-I, rev. (m.m.) : RVTILAnS : ROSA : SInE : SPInA :, Lombardic lettering, double saltire stops, crowned Tudor Rose dividing h-I, 1.798g [27.747grns], 8h, m.m. arrow (Norweb 902 this coin; Lockett 4346; Whitton IV, 2; Schneider I, 606; North 1795; S.2287), a small scratch in obverse right field, and of a paler gold fabric that is slightly short of flan, otherwise superbly uniform for strike, extremely fine or very near so and truly rare in this exemplary condition, in 1994 as few as seven examples of this type were known, in NGC Black 'Carrington' holder, graded MS62 (Cert. #8534367-012) [*Single Finest Certified*]

Provenance

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


M Amstell, by private treaty with "Carrington", November 1986


Emery May Norweb, Part 3, Spink 56, 19 November 1986, lot 902* - "very fine and rare" - £600 [Amstell]


A H Baldwin, by private treaty, 1957


Richard Cyril Lockett [English II], Glendining, 11-12, 15-17 October 1956, lot 1785* - "extremely fine, very rare" - £18.10.0 [Baldwin]


~ Lockett Manuscript [BNJ Digitised Volume 19, p. 24 of 40] - "unpublished"


A H Baldwin, by private treaty [ref. B5498] - £3.15.0


https://www.ngccoin.com/certlookup/8534367-012/62/

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Sold for
£12,000

Starting price
£1500