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Auction: 26022 - The Hambleden Hoard: The Most Important Trove of Black Death Coins Ever Found
Lot: 1338

Edward III (1327-1377), Third Period, Noble, authorised 30 July 1346 - May 1351, Tower (London), ED | WAR : D' : GR'A : REX : AnGL : S FRAnC : DnS x hyB, D formed of composite puncheons, small lettering, double saltire stops, King standing in ship, brandishing long sword and Royal shield set with semé of four fleurs in undivided first quarter, ropes 3/2 with dexter line bisecting legend, quatrefoils 4/4, bow-sprit through foc'sul, ornaments 11-11-11, leopards facing right, rev. :+: IhC : TRANSIEns : PER : MEDIVM : ILLORVM : IBAT, chevron-barred As, lombardic Ns and Ms, seriffed Roman Is, small lettering, double saltire stops, small E at centre of early floriate cross with bicornuate filaments and broken anthers and interior "fidget-spinner" trefoils breaking on upper left lobe, with 'early' crowns, [Spink XRF: .999 Fine], 33.6 x 35.2mm., 8.304g [128.15grns], 9h, i.m. incurved cross (BM 2019 T450, no. 10 = PAS OXON-1AAA88, no. 617 this coin; Potter 1a, unlisted dies; Stewartby 1; Edmund, dies Aa-2/aa-1 [1 Known]; North 1110; Spink 1481), subtly crimped with superficial scuffing below shield and in first quarter of reverse, and with faint pin scratch marks in second quarter, otherwise an outstandingly 'mint fresh' example, with an exceptional and expressive Royal profile and arresting mint bloom across a full-weight planchet, a most exquisitely bold extremely fine and truly 'choice', as struck, from previously unpublished dies almost certainly cut by Second Period Mintmaster Percival du Porche, extremely rare thus

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Estimate
£8,000 to £12,000

Starting price
£8000