Auction: 25005 - The Carrington and Pallas Collections of Exceptional English and Anglo-Gallic Gold Coins and Proof Sets
Lot: 669
(x) NGC AU | Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Second 'Restoration' Coinage, Sixth Issue [Fine Gold], Half-Angel or Gold Angelet, (Pyx Period: 14 February 1585 - 30 May 1587), Tower (London), (m.m.) • ELIZAB .' D .' G .' ANG .' FR .' ET • HIB .' REGI '•, St. Michael vanquishing Dragon, rev. (m.m.) A : DNO : FACTVM : EST : ISTVD : ET : EST · MIRA•, ship surmounted by square-topped shield and mast dividing E and rose, 2.510g [38.73grns], 9h, m.m. escallop (Schneider I, 791-792, albeit this m.m. unrepresented; North 2006; S.2532), lightly creased, otherwise on a delightfully full round flan, a most wholesome and pleasing very fine, rare thus, in NGC Black 'Carrington' holder, graded Almost Uncirculated (Cert. #8536700-010)
Provenance
The "Carrington" Collection of Exceptional English and Anglo-Gallic Gold Coins
Spink 223, 26 March 2014, lot 1453 - £3,500
A H Baldwin, by private treaty [with this envelope]
Vincent John Eustace Ryan, Part I, Glendining, 28-30 June 1950, lot 305* - "extremely fine and very rare" - £15.10.0 [Baldwin]
https://www.ngccoin.uk/certlookup/8536700-010/NGCDetails/
Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.
Sold for
£3,000
Starting price
£3000