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Auction: 26022 - The Hambleden Hoard: The Most Important Trove of Black Death Coins Ever Found
Lot: 1349

Edward III (1327-1377), Third Period, Noble, authorised 30 July 1346 - May 1351, Tower (London), ED | WAR : D' : GRA : REX : AnGL' : S : FRAnC : DnS : hyB, "belt-buckle E", large lettering, double saltire stops, 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 3/4, bow-sprit through foc'sul, ornaments -11-11-11, leopards facing left, rev. :+: Ih'C : TRANSIEns : PER : MEDIVM : ILLORVM : IBAT, A double-entered A in IBAT, chevron-barred As, lombardic ns and Ms, large lettering, double saltire stops, large E at centre of re-designed floriate cross with "nutcracker" terminals and closed bi-lobed escutcheons, 35.0 x 35.5mm., [Spink XRF: .999 Fine], 8.274g [127.69grns], 11h, i.m. broken cross formée (BM 2019 T450, no. 12 = PAS OXON-1AAA88, no. 628 this coin; Potter 2a, no. 10/- = Balcombe Hoard = BM 1897,1103.1 same obverse die; Stewartby 2; Edmund, dies B-4/ca-8 [1 Known]; North 1110; Spink 1481), minor ghosting in the strike to highest points, otherwise a beautifully lustrous and wholesomely original example on a full round planchet, extremely fine or very near so and truly much as issued, extremely rare thus, and from a previously unpublished reverse die

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Estimate
£8,000 to £12,000

Starting price
£8000