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Auction: 25005 - The Carrington and Pallas Collections of Exceptional English and Anglo-Gallic Gold Coins and Proof Sets
Lot: 680

(x) NGC AU55 | Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Third 'Restoration' Coinage, Seventh Issue, Gold Halfcrown [of 2.5-Shillings], (Pyx Period: 14 May 1602 - 24 March 1603), Tower (London), (m.m.) : ELIZAB .' D .' G .' ANG .' FR .' ET • HIB .' REGI .', crowned bust 7D left, rev. (m.m.) : SCVTVM • FIDEI • PROTEGET • EA, pellet stops, crowned shield of arms, E-R at sides, 1.352g [20.86grns], 5h, m.m. 2 (Stewart Thorburn [1887], 102 = Montagu III [1896], 62 = Watters [1917], 325 = Cassal [1924], 295 = Clarke-Thornhill [1937], 100 = Raynes [1950], 165 = J L Dresser [1987], 1763 = Lovejoy [1997], 1403 = Adams [2005], 19; Murdoch 603 [21.5grns]; Evans = SNC, July-August 1919, no. 93100 = Brigg 11 = Hird 711 = Comber I, 43; Brown & Comber J23; North 2011; S.2542), slight peripheral softness, otherwise a pleasing and balanced strike across a paler yellow gold planchet, good very fine and excessively rare, perhaps only six known specimens, in NGC Black 'Carrington' holder, graded AU55 (Cert. #8536700-012)

Provenance

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


M Amstell, by private treaty, 1988 - £2,850


Richard Cyril Lockett, Part IV, Glendining, 26-27 April 1960, lot 4102* - "very fine and very rare" - £92.0.0


Spink, by private treaty, 1921 - £3.0.0


Major Philip William Poole Carlyon-Britton, collection dispersed from 1920


https://www.ngccoin.uk/certlookup/8536700-012/55/

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Sold for
£8,500

Starting price
£3000