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Auction: 25005 - The Carrington and Pallas Collections of Exceptional English and Anglo-Gallic Gold Coins and Proof Sets
Lot: 647

(x) NGC AU | Edward VI (1547-1553), Second Period, First Issue, Gold Crown, or 'Quarter-Sovereign', 24 January 1549 - 12 April 1549, Tower (London), EDWARD : VI : D : G : AGL : FR • Z • HIB : REX, crowned oval and elaborately garnished shield, dividing E-R, rev. (m.m.) SCVTVM : FIDEI : PROTEGET : EVM :, youthful bare head and cuirassed bust right, double lozenge stops, 2.656g [41.0grns], 2h, m.m. -/arrow (HCN 48; Potter 1(b); Montagu II, 796 same dies; Lord Hastings = Hilton-Price 113 = Moon = Bruun 600 = Drabble 142 same dies; Ryan 240 this coin; Lockett 1863 same dies; Schneider I, 676 same dies; North 1913; S.2441), unfortunate scratches before portrait and typical softness to devices where dies clash, otherwise on a neat round flan, with pleasing hues of natural lustre and light tone in recesses, strictly very fine, but the portrait of the 'Boy King' delightfully better still, very rare thus, in NGC Black 'Carrington' holder, graded Almost Uncirculated (Cert. #8536700-002)

Provenance

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


Spink 54, 20 June 1986, lot 573* - £1,550


A H Baldwin, by private treaty


V J E Ryan, Glendining, 28-30 June 1950, lot 240* - £29.0.0 [Baldwin]



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Sold for
£5,500

Starting price
£3000