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Auction: 25005 - The Carrington and Pallas Collections of Exceptional English and Anglo-Gallic Gold Coins and Proof Sets
Lot: 664

(x) NGC AU55 | Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Second Coinage, Gold Halfcrown, 1561-1565, Tower (London), (m.m.) ELIZABETH : D .' G .' AN .' FR .' ET • HI .' REGINA, crowned bust 1G left, rev. (m.m.) SCVTAM • FIDEI • PROTEG EAM, inverted V in SCVTVM, pellet stops, crowned shield of arms, dividing E-R, 1.401g [21.62grns], 11h, m.m. cross crosslet (AHH Virtual 148 this coin; Brown & Comber J4; cf. Schneider I, 753, North 1984; S.2524), a delightful cabinet specimen with hints of natural honey-golden tone cloaking lustrous original surfaces, a really good very fine / extremely fine, rare thus and with an esteemed pedigree, in NGC Black 'Carrington' holder, graded AU55 (Cert. #8536700-008)

Provenance

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


Spink 67, 16 November 1988, lot 49 - £1,450


Alderman Horace Hird, Glendining, May 1961, lot 58* - "extremely fine and very rare" - £94.0.0


Dr Ernest Christison Carter, collection purchased en bloc by Baldwin, 1950



https://www.ngccoin.uk/certlookup/8536700-008/55/

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Sold for
£5,200

Starting price
£3000