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Auction: 26005 - British and World Coins and Medals: The Martin J Waldron Collection of English Coins
Lot: 395

(x) Richard III (1483-1485), Type 2b, Halfgroat, Tower, (London), (m.m.), RICARD' DI' GRA' REX AnGL' Z FRA, crowned bust facing, pellet below, within tressure of nine arcs, trefoils on cusps, rev. POSVI DEVm A | DIVTOR | E mEVm || CIVI | TAS | LON | DON, long cross with trefoils in angles, 1.45g [22.38grns], 8h, m.m. boar's head 2 [on obverse only] (North 1683; S.2161 the Plate Coin), remarkably full flan for type, with only minor softness to portrait that scarcely obscures the iconic grimace of the Yorkist usurper, a clear regnal reading, and traces of his eponymous boar mint mark, technically very fine, but excessively rare, with very few specimens known and even more seldom encountered in global public commerce

Provenance

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


SNC, July 2004, HS1702 - "lightly scratched (to remove deposit), otherwise very fine with a clear portrait, extremely rare" [with tickets and envelope. The ticket reading 'Only 7 known, none in BM']

Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.

Estimate
£4,000 to £6,000

Starting price
£3600