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Auction: 25005 - The Carrington and Pallas Collections of Exceptional English and Anglo-Gallic Gold Coins and Proof Sets
Lot: 631

(x) NGC AU58 | Henry VIII (1509-1547), Third Coinage, Quarter-Angel, (m.m.) hENRICVS . VIII . DI . GRA . AGLIE ., slipped trefoil stops, gothic lettering excepting the Roman N, St Michael wearing armour vanquishing Dragon, rev. (m.m.) FRANCIE x ET x hIBERNIE x REX., slipped trefoil stops, gothic lettering excepting the Roman N, ship surmounted by square-topped shield and mast dividing h and Rose, 1.297g [20.016grns], 4h, m.m. lys (Schneider I, 628-629; North 1832; S.2304), crimped and with striking softness to peripheries, but with a glorious and rich old cabinet tone the devices bolder and more uniform for strike, a pleasant very fine, very rare, in NGC Black 'Carrington' holder, sympathetically graded AU58 (Cert. #8534368-014)

Provenance

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


Seaby, by private treaty, 1980 - £525



https://www.ngccoin.com/certlookup/8534368-014/58/



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Sold for
£2,200

Starting price
£700