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Auction: 25005 - The Carrington and Pallas Collections of Exceptional English and Anglo-Gallic Gold Coins and Proof Sets
Lot: 660

(x) NGC AU55 | Mary and Philip (1554-1558), New Style, Angel, authorised 26 December 1554, Tower (London), (m.m.) PHILIP • Z • MARIA • D : G : REX • Z • REGINA, St Michael vanquishing Dragon, with long wings, rev. (m.m.) A • DNO • FACTVM • EST • ISTVD : Z • EST • MIRABI •, ship surmounted by square-topped shield and mast dividing P and M, wire line inner circles both sides, 5.058g [78.05grns], 7h, m.m. lys (Schneider I, 726-728; North 1965; S.2496A), some partial striking softness across an otherwise broad and full flan, with attractive natural cabinet tone across residually lustrous fields, a pleasing and wholesome very fine, rare and with a fine pedigree, in NGC Black 'Carrington' holder, graded AU55 (Cert. #8534362-009)

Provenance

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


The Ridgemount Collection, Spink 69, 20 April 1989, lot 172* -"good very fine and very rare" - £2,300


J H Barnes, Sotheby's, 26 June 1974, lot 127* - "very fine and very rare" - £2,700 [Baldwin]


Thomas Bliss, Sotheby's, 22-24 March 1916, lot 287 - "very fine and extremely rare" - £16.10.0 [Spink]



https://www.ngccoin.com/certlookup/8534362-009/55/

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Sold for
£21,000

Starting price
£10000