Auction: 26005 - British and World Coins and Medals: The Martin J Waldron Collection of English Coins
Lot: 457
Edward III (1327-1377), Treaty Period, Noble, 1363-1369, Group B, Tower (London), ED | WARD : DEI GRA : REX : AnGL : DnS : hYB 'x, double saltire stops, annulet before ED, King standing in ship, brandishing long sword and Royal shield set with semé of four fleurs and pellets in first quarter, wearing Royal jupon over brigandine armour, ropes 3/2, quatrefoils 4/2, bow-sprit through foc'sul, ornaments -11-11, leopards facing right, rev. + IhC : AVTEM : TRAnSIEnS : PER : MEDIV : ILLORVM : IBAT, double saltire stops, floriate cross, crowned leopards in angles, trefoil-tipped central panel, E at centre, 7.69g [118.67grns], 3h, i.m. cross pattée (LAL, Group b, no. 3; Doubleday 224ff; Schneider I, 87 same obverse die; North 1232; S.1503), a most handsome coin with glorious and entirely uniform old cabinet tone, practically FDC, a true connoisseur's GEM, and from the same obverse die as next
Provenance
Spink, by private treaty, July 1974 - £975
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Estimate
£14,000 to £18,000
Starting price
£14000