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Auction: 25005 - The Carrington and Pallas Collections of Exceptional English and Anglo-Gallic Gold Coins and Proof Sets
Lot: 650

(x) NGC XF40 | Edward VI (1547-1553), Second Period, Second Issue, Gold Halfcrown (or Eighth Sovereign), 12 April 1549 - April 1550, Tower (London), (m.m.) EDWARD : VI : D : G : A : F : Z : HI : REX, young crowned bust right, with plain breast armour, rev. (m.m.) SCVTVM . FIDEI . PROTEGET . EVM, crowned oval garnished shield, small square stops, 1.296g [20.00grns], 11h, m.m. arrow [both sides] (Rud. VII, 6; Sir Henry Russell [1850] = Brice = Murchison [1864], 160 = Bergne [1873], 551 = Brice = Montagu [1896], 802 = Roth 265* = Lockett 4363* = Norweb 912* same dies; Lord Grantley 1514* same dies; Schneider I, 679; North 1916; S.2444), overtly double-struck to reverse, with a hairline split in portrait and crimping to flan, otherwise with an attractive old cabinet tone, very rare, in NGC Black 'Carrington' holder, graded XF40 (Cert. #8534368-003)

Provenance

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


Seaby, by private treaty, September 1979 - £675



https://www.ngccoin.com/certlookup/8534368-003/40/

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Sold for
£2,200

Starting price
£800