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Auction: 25005 - The Carrington and Pallas Collections of Exceptional English and Anglo-Gallic Gold Coins and Proof Sets
Lot: 641

(x) NGC AU50 | Edward VI (1547-1553), Second Coinage, Pattern for a Gold Crown, 24 January 1549 - 12 April 1549, Tower (London), (m.m.) EDWARD ?. VI . REX . ANGL FRAN .' HIBE .' Z C, bare headed and cuirassed bust right, rev. + SCVTVM * FIDEI . PROTEGET . EVM ., large crowned 'full blown' Tudor rose on ascending vine with floral spray below, dividing E-R, 3.11g [48grns], 1h, m.m. cinquefoil ['rose'] (Snelling, Pl. III, 3 [Pattern]; Rud. Pl. VII, 12; MI, I 56/6 ['Coronation Pattern for a Half-Sovereign']; National Museum of Scotland A.1911.506.148; Hocking 886 = Royal Mint Museum 5209; British Museum E.3386; North 1951; Wilson & Rasmussen 8-9 [R6-R7]), a hint of ghosting in fields, with speckles of red wax in legends, on a neat round flan accentuated by richer ochre cabinet tone, a most pleasingly bold and wholesome very fine, and ox exceptional rarity, but seven specimens recorded, four of which are impounded in institutions, this with a truly magnificent provenance through the very greatest of the private English Numismatic cabinets ever formed!, in NGC Black 'Carrington' holder, conservatively graded AU50 (Cert. #8534361-007)

Provenance

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


M Amstell, by private treaty, Spring 1986


"The Wolfson Trust", Sotheby's, 13 February 1986, lot 78* - "minor flan flaw but very fine and attractive, extremely rare" - £5,000 [Amstell]


Alderman Horace Hird, First Sale, Glendining, 30-31 May 1961, lot 21* - "very fine and extremely rare" - £420.0.0 [Spink]


William Luard Raynes, Glendining, 15 February 1950, lot 106* - "very fine and very rare" - £62.0.0 [Hird]


Thomas Bryan Clarke-Thornhill, Part I, Glendining, 24-28 May 1937, lot 67* - "very fine and very rare" - £63.0.0


Spink Numismatic Circular, March-April 1923, no. 16588* - "of extreme rarity, RRR. E.F." - £22.10.0


Frederick George Hilton-Price FRNS, Director of the Royal Society of Antiquaries, Sotheby's, 17-19 May 1909, lot 112* - "a fine and exceedingly rare coin" - £8.5.0 [Rollin & Feuardent]


John Gloag Murdoch, First Portion, Sotheby's, 31 March 1903, lot 532 - "wt. 48grns, fine and extremely rare" - £11.5.0


"A Member of the Numismatic Society of London" [Alfred Trice Martin], Sotheby’s, 26-30 May 1902, lot 12* - "very fine and excessively rare. From the Brown, Addington, Montagu (Duplicates), and Gurney Collections" -


W N Clarkson, Sotheby's, 16 April 1901, lot 35* - "fine and extremely rare" - £15.0.0 [Rollin & Feuardent]


James Gurney, Christie, Manson and Wood, 9 April 1891, lot unspecified


Hyman Montagu, Third Duplicates, Sotheby's, 7 May 1888, lot 198 - "very fine and of excessive rarity" - £33.0.0 [Rollin & Feuardent]


Samuel Addington, collection purchased en bloc by Montagu, 1883


Thomas Brown, Sotheby's, 26-31 July 1869, lot 472 - "wt. 48grs. fine, and of great rarity" - £12.12.0 [Addington]


https://archive.org/details/spinkcircular1898v06v07/page/n351/mode/2up?q="rud+vii%2C+12"

https://archive.org/details/medallicillustra01hawk/page/56/mode/2up?q="ANGL+FRAN+HIBE"

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WUEuAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR359&dq=edward+vi+pattern+crown+1547&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi_lIvWzbKLAxUqVUEAHaHDHNcQ6AF6BAgLEAM#v=onepage&q=edward%20vi%20pattern%20crown%201547&f=false

Dimsdale 1824, lot 1677 - wt. 45 grns - £5.2.6 [Young]

i) Marsham 409 [£35.10.0, Verity] = Richardson 135 [£22.0.0, Hyde] = SNC, December 1898, no. 50126 - £37.10.0 [51 grns] = Murdoch 531 = Evans 2499 same dies = Lockett II, 1862* [£155.0.0 - Spink]

ii) Murdoch 532 this coin

iii) Hugh Howard = Brice = Montagu II, 817 [47.5grns] = SNC, September 1896, no. 33817 [VF. £45.0.0] = Lindsay-Carnegie [1911] = NMS A.1911.506.148

iv) Sarah Sophia Banks [1818] = Hocking 886 = Royal Mint Museum

v) Sir John Twisden = Wigan = Rashleigh [1909], 816 = SNC, November 1909, no. 70660 [VF. £12.10.0] = SNC, June 1912, no. 101265 [48.5grns, EF. £12.10.0]

vi) BM

Half-Sovereign - Cuff 1854, 1028 - £5.5.0 [Dantziger] = Murchison 1864, 168 = Addington



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Sold for
£80,000

Starting price
£30000