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Auction: 25005 - The Carrington and Pallas Collections of Exceptional English and Anglo-Gallic Gold Coins and Proof Sets
Lot: 675

(x) NGC AU | Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Mestrelle's Milled Issues, Gold Crown, [1561], Upper House, Tower (London), struck from the Groat obverse die, (m.m.) ELIZABETH • D • G • ANG • FRA • ET • HIB • REGINA, crowned bust A left, rev. (m.m.) SCVTVM • FIDEI • PROTEGET • EAM •, crowned arms dividing ER, 2.777g [42.5grns], 6h, mm. star (Borden & Brown 7 [O1/R1] / OR M1 CHECK; Schneider I, 761 same dies; North 2020/1; S.2544), lightly creased and bright, nonetheless a most beautifully uniform strike, especially sharp to bodice, almost extremely fine, and very rare, in NGC Black 'Carrington' holder, graded Almost Uncirculated (Cert. #8536700-014)

Provenance

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


Spink 67, 16 November 1988, lot 57 - "crease marks, otherwise about very fine and very rare" - £1,150


Richard Cyril Lockett, Part II, Glendining, 11-12 October 1956, lot 2040* - "very fine and extremely rare" - £80.0.0


Spink, by private treaty, 1915 - £12.0.0


Sir John Evans, collection dispersed through Spink, from 1908



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Sold for
£5,500

Starting price
£4000