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Auction: 26005 - British and World Coins and Medals: The Martin J Waldron Collection of English Coins
Lot: 375

(x) Edward III (1327-1377), Fourth Coinage, Pre-Treaty Period, Noble, 1352-1353, Series C/D Mule, Tower (London), E | DWARD '• DEI • GRA • REX • ANGL '• 7 • FRANC • D • hYB, single annulet stops, closed E, Roman reversed-barred Ns, wedge-tailed R, King standing in ship, brandishing long sword and Royal shield set with semé of four fleurs and crescents in first quarter, wearing Royal jupon over brigandine armour, rerebrace, couter and gauntlet visible on sword arm, chain mail draping below, ropes 3/3, quatrefoils 4/4, bow-sprit through foc'sul, ornaments 11-11-11-11, leopards facing left, rev. + Ih'C • AVTEM • TRANCIENS • P • MEDIVM • ILLORCM • IBAT [sic], single annulet stops, floriate cross, crowned leopards in angles, with additional lys in second quarter, small closed E at centre, 7.718g [119.11grns], 2h, i.m. cross 1 (2) (LAL, obverse die N/-; Doubleday 46 this coin; Isladulcie 4; Schneider I, 19 same dies; N.1144/1151; S.1486/1487), subtly crimped, otherwise with wonderful reddish orange tone across honey golden fields, a most pleasingly wholesome and bolder very fine, an extremely rare mule

Provenance

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


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


Gordon Vincent Doubleday, Glendining, 7 June 1972, lot 46* - "reverse weak in 4th quarter but very fine, excessively rare" - £1,400 [Spink]


Laurie Asher Lawrence, collection of Edwardian Gold purchased en bloc by Doubleday, 1950

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Estimate
£2,400 to £3,000

Starting price
£2200