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Auction: 26005 - British and World Coins and Medals: The Martin J Waldron Collection of English Coins
Lot: 370

(x) Edward III (1327-1377), Third Coinage, Third Period, Noble, authorised 28 July 1346-1351, Type 2b, Tower (London), by Lote Nicholyn and George Clerkyn, ED | WAR 'x D : GRA : REX : AnGL ' Z : FRAnC : DnS : hYB : King standing in ship, brandishing long sword and Royal shield set with semé of four-and-a-half fleurs in first quarter, wearing Royal jupon over brigandine armour, rerebrace, couter and gauntlet visible on sword arm, chain mail draping below, ropes 3/2, quatrefoils 4/4, bow-sprit through foc'sul, ornaments -11-11-11, leopards facing left, rev. + Ih'C : TRANSIEns : PER : MEDIVM : ILLORVM : IBAT, unbarred As, lombardic ns and Ms, variable lettering sizes, double saltire stops, large E at centre of repaired floriate cross with "nutcracker" terminals and splaying open bi-lobed escutcheons, 7.783g [120.11grns], 4h, i.m. cross pattée (Sir John Evans 2163 = BMC 1924,1020.3; Edmund, dies B-7/d-1 [1 Known]; Schneider I, - cf. 3-4; Potter 2b [2 Known]; Doubleday -, cf. 4/-; North 1110; S.1481), of bright and lightly flashed appearance across a slightly irregular flan, nevertheless largely uniform for strike, with hints of residual lustre in deepest recesses, strictly about very fine, but excessively rare, with only thirty-eight "Third Period" Nobles known to this cataloguer, and only two recorded as 'true' class 2bs; the other held for over a Century in the National Collection, with this unsurprisingly from unique obverse and reverse dies

Provenance

The Martin Waldron Collection of Anglo-Saxon, Norman and Plantagenet Coins


SNC, October 1989, no. 5307* - "about VF" - £1,600 [with ticket]


Thomas William James David Dupree, collection dispersed by Spink, from 1989 [with his ticket]

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Estimate
£4,000 to £5,000

Starting price
£3800