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Auction: 25005 - The Carrington and Pallas Collections of Exceptional English and Anglo-Gallic Gold Coins and Proof Sets
Lot: 677

(x) NGC AU | Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Third 'Restoration' Coinage, Seventh Issue, Pound [of 20-Shillings], (Pyx Period: 29 July 1601 - 14 May 1602), Tower (London), (m.m.) : ELIZABETH • D .' G .' ANG .' FRA .' ET • HIB .' REGINA •, crowned bust left, rev. (m.m.) : SCVTVM • FIDEI • PROTEGET • EAM • pellet stops, crowned shield of arms, E-R at sides, 11.088g [171.11grns], 9h, m.m. 1 (AHH Virtual 122 this coin; Schneider I, 805; North 2008; S.2539), partially soft of strike to base of portrait otherwise sumptuous and thoroughly pleasing, with a rich and colourful golden tone with much underlying lustre in recesses, an attractive and wholesome good very fine, in NGC Black 'Carrington' holder, graded Almost Uncirculated (Cert. #8534362-012)

Provenance

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


Alderman Horace Hird, Part 3, Sotheby's, 24 March 1988, lot 708 - £2,100



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Sold for
£11,000

Starting price
£8000