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Auction: 25005 - The Carrington and Pallas Collections of Exceptional English and Anglo-Gallic Gold Coins and Proof Sets
Lot: 670

(x) NGC MS62 | Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Third 'Restoration' Coinage, Sixth Issue [Crown Gold], Halfpound [of 10-Shillings], (Pyx Period: 9 May 1594 - 13 February 1596), Tower (London), (m.m.) ELIZABETH • D .' G .' ANG . FRA '. ET HI .' REGINA • elaboratedly decorated and crowned bust left, rev. (m.m.) SCVTVM • FIDEI • PROTEGET • EAM •, crowned square-topped shield dividing E-R, 5.662g [87.37grns], 10h, m.m. woolpack (Schneider I, 810; North 2009; S.2535A), an extraordinary coin, beautifully, naturally and arrestingly toned, with much underlying lustrous 'warmth', practically as struck, and undoubtedly amongst the finest known specimens of Charles Anthony's "elaborately bejewelled" canon, in NGC Black 'Carrington' holder, graded MS62 (Cert. #8534362-011)

Provenance

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


M Amstell, by private treaty, April 1987 - £1,850



https://www.ngccoin.com/certlookup/8534362-011/62/

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Sold for
£27,000

Starting price
£10000