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Auction: 25005 - The Carrington and Pallas Collections of Exceptional English and Anglo-Gallic Gold Coins and Proof Sets
Lot: 661

(x) NGC VF25 | Mary and Philip (1554-1558), Half-Angel or Gold Angelet, authorised 26 December 1554, Tower (London), (m.m.) PHILIP • Z • MARIA • D : G : REX • Z • REGI, St Michael vanquishing Dragon, rev. (m.m.) A '• DNO •' FACTVM • EST • ISTVD : Z • EST • MIR, ship surmounted by square-topped shield and mast dividing P and M, wire line inner circles both sides, 2.498g [38.55grns], 4h, m.m. lys (Ruding, pl. IX, 6; Kenyon, fig. 82; S.2497), a minor flan split at 7 o'clock and subtly crimped, with a trace of doubling to obverse legend, otherwise uniform and even for strike, with an attractive buttery-gold tone, only a really bold fine to bordering on very fine, but one of only THREE KNOWN specimens, with a magnificent pedigree, a true 'sleeping giant' of the Carrington Cabinet, in NGC Black 'Carrington' holder, graded VF25 (Cert. #8536701-002)

Provenance

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


M Amstell, by private treaty with "Carrington", March 1986 - £13,500


Vincent John Eustace Ryan, Part I, Glendining, 28-30 June 1950, lot 267


Reginald Huth, Sotheby's, 4-7 April 1927, lot 61* - "extremely rare, but only in fair state"


Frederick George Hilton-Price, Sotheby's, 17 May 1909, lot 129* - "one of the finest known examples of this excessively rare coin" - £10.15.0 [Rollin & Feuardent]


John Gloag Murdoch, First Portion, Sotheby's, 31 March 1903, lot 551 - "38grns - well preserved and excessively rare"


Hyman Montagu, Third Portion, Sotheby's, 13 November 1896, lot 15 - "38.5grns - extra rare, but in poor condition" - £15.0.0 [Spink for Murdoch]


Rev. Edward John Shepherd, Sotheby's, 22 July 1885, lot 261 - "extremely rare, but poor" - £15.10.0 [Spink for Montagu]


Rev. Joseph William Martin, Sotheby's, 23 May 1859, lot 193 - "extremely rare, but not fine" - £10.5.0 [Shepherd]



https://www.ngccoin.uk/certlookup/8536701-002/25/

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Sold for
£27,000

Starting price
£8000