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Auction: 25005 - The Carrington and Pallas Collections of Exceptional English and Anglo-Gallic Gold Coins and Proof Sets
Lot: 658

(x) NGC AU55 | *Top Pop* | Mary, Solus (1553-1554), Half-Angel or Gold Angelet, Tower (London), MARIA (m.m.) D .' G .' A .' FR .' Z . hIB .' REGI', St Michael vanquishing Dragon, rev. A . DnO '. FACTV .' EST (m.m.) ISTVD : Z '., ship surmounted by square-topped shield and mast dividing M and Rose, 2.556g [39.4grns], 8h, m.m. pomegranate (Rev. Joseph William Martin 189 = Murchison 177 = Addington = Royal House of Tudor, 105 = Montagu III, 5 = Murdoch I, 543* = Leslie-Ellis = Brand = Lockett = Norweb 918 this coin; Schneider I, 719; North 1958; S.2491), a beautifully balanced and uniform example of one of the great rarities of Tudor England, a pleasingly wholesome and good very fine with traces of red-wax in recesses, almost certainly the finest known specimen with a unbeatable pedigree, having passed through the hands of the most respected and legendary English numismatists of the 19th and 20th Century, in NGC Black 'Carrington' holder, graded AU55 (Cert. #8534361-012) [*Single Finest Certified*]

Provenance

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


Mrs Emery May Norweb, Part 3, Spink 56, 19 November 1986, lot 918* - "very fine and extremely rare" - £9,500 [Amstell]


Richard Cyril Lockett, Part III, Glendining, 4-6 October 1958, lot 1929


Lt.-Colonel Henry Leslie-Ellis (1852 - †12 April 1918), collection purchased en bloc by Spink, July 1919 - £52.5.0


John Gloag Murdoch, First Portion, Sotheby's, May 1903, lot 543* - "unusually fine and extremely rare" - £44.10.0


Hyman Montagu, Third Portion, Sotheby's, 11-15 November 1896, lot 5 - £20.5.0


~ Exhibited at the Royal House of Tudor, 1890, no. 105 - this coin ~


Samuel Addington, collection purchased en bloc by Montagu, 1883


Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, Sotheby's, 27 June 1864, lot 177 - 40grns - "extremely rare and very fine" - £51.0.0 [Addington]


Rev. Joseph William Martin, Sotheby's, 1859, lot 189 - "extremely rare and very fine" - £35.0.0



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Sold for
£42,000

Starting price
£15000