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Auction: 25005 - The Carrington and Pallas Collections of Exceptional English and Anglo-Gallic Gold Coins and Proof Sets
Lot: 656

(x) NGC AU | Mary, Solus (1553-1554), Ryal of 15-Shillings, MDLIII [1553], Tower (London), mARIA . (m.m.) . D . G . ANG . FRA . ANG . S . hIB . REGINA . M . D . L | III., three-quarter length figure of queen in centre of ship to right, high fore and stern castles, the queen crowned, standing to front, holding sword and supporting royal shield, a rose on ship’s side and flag with M at stern, A : DNO .' FACTV .' EST : ISTVD . Z . EST . MIRABI '. IN : OCVL '. nRI '., annular stops, ornamental cross with radiate rose in centre; between arches of octafoil panel crowned lion or lys, alternately, 7.017g [108.3grns], 6h, m.m. pomegranate (North 1957, Pl. V, 57 same dies; S.2489), a small scratch in reverse second quarter and slightly short of flan, otherwise a rich buttery-yellow gold fabric and handsomely uniform for strike, a most pleasingly wholesome and bolder very fine, of the highest rarity, only TEN examples traced, this with a supreme pedigree, in NGC Black 'Carrington' holder, graded Almost Uncirculated (Cert. #8534361-010)

Provenance

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


M Amstell, by private treaty, November 1985


Mrs Emery May Norweb, Part II, Spink 48, 13 November 1985, lot 351* - "Queen's face weak, about very fine, the reverse better, excessively rare" - £13,000 [Amstell]


Charles Dabney-Thompson, collection dispersed by Spink, April 1965


Alderman Horace Hird, Part I, Spink-Glendining, 30-31 May 1961, lot 27* - "weakly struck on the Queen's face, otherwise very fine and excessively rare. Ex Hilton Price and Bruun Collections." - £1,200.0.0 [Spink for Dabney-Thompson]


Spink Numismatic Circular, November 1926, no. 60980 - "RRRR. VF" - £120.0.0


Spink Numismatic Circular, March-April 1926, no. 51011 - "a piece of the highest rarity. VF" - £120.0.0


Spink Numismatic Circular, September-October 1925, no. 43992 - "a very fine and extremely rare piece" - £112.10.0


Lars Emil Bruun, Sotheby's, 18-22 May 1925, lot 622* - "a very fine and extremely rare piece" - £98.0.0 [Spink]


Frederick George Hilton-Price, Sotheby's, 1909, lot 125* - "a very fine coin and of the highest rarity"


ALMOST CERTAINLY
Hon. Robert Marsham-Townshend, Sotheby's, May 1888, lot 428 - "fine and of extreme rarity but clipped" - £30.10.0 [Spink]



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Sold for
£42,000

Starting price
£40000