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Auction: 25005 - The Carrington and Pallas Collections of Exceptional English and Anglo-Gallic Gold Coins and Proof Sets
Lot: 667

(x) NGC AU58 | Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Second 'Restoration' Coinage, Sixth Issue [Fine Gold], Rose Noble or 'Ship Ryal' [of 15-Shillings], (Pyx Period: 14 February 1585 - 30 May 1587), Tower (London), ELI | ZAB .' D .' G .' AnG .' FR .' ET .' hI | B REGINA ., Queen holding orb and sceptre, seated three-quarters facing in Tudor Galleon, set with double-rose, ornaments -1 | 1-1, ropes 3/3, sails 2/4, E on standard and sails on bowsprit, calm waters lap below, rev. (m.m.) IhS .' AVT .' TRAnSIEnS • PER • MEDIV .' ILLORVM • IBAT •, rose upon radiant sun, alternating crowned Leopards and floriate cross terminals in angles, small trefoils in spandrels, 7.54g [116.36grns], 7h, m.m. escallop (Brown & Comber B6; Schneider I, 785 same dies; North 2004; S.2530), struck with aging dies, otherwise a sumptuous and original specimen, sharply and uniformly struck up for issue, almost extremely fine, with an excellent pedigree and accompanying traces of red wax in recesses from historic illustration, in NGC Black 'Carrington' holder, graded AU58 (Cert. #8534361-011)

Provenance

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


The "Magnus" Collection, Spink 223, 28 March 2012, lot 894 - £52,000


T W J D Dupree, collection dispersed by Spink, 1989


Dr Ernest Christison Carter, collection dispersed by Baldwin's, 1950


Lars Emil Bruun, Sotheby's, 18-22 May 1925, lot 634* - "very fine and very rare" - £34.10.0 [Spink for Carter]


A H Baldwin, by private treaty with Bruun


Frederick George Hilton-Price, Sotheby's, 17 May 1909, lot 136 - "very fine and very rare" - £11.0.0 [Baldwin]



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Sold for
£60,000

Starting price
£40000