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Auction: 26022 - The Hambleden Hoard: The Most Important Trove of Black Death Coins Ever Found
Lot: 1548

Henry VIII († 28 January 1547), Posthumous Issues, struck under Edward VI, Half-Sovereign, 5 April 1547 - 24 January 1549, in 20ct Gold, Tower (London), (m.m.) x HENRIC + 8 + D + G + ANGL + | + FRANC + ET + HIBER + REX + ET as TE ligate symbol, Roman lettering, pierced cross stops, King enthroned, with Edwardian features, holding orb and sceptre, Tudor Rose below, rev. (m.m.) IHS + AVTEM + TRANSIENS + PER + MEDIVM x ILLOR + IBAT x, saltire stops, crowned shield with Lion and Griffin Royal supporters, HR in cartouche in exergue, [Spink XRF: 0.843 Fine AV], 6.19g [95.6grns], 7h, m.m. arrow/arrow (BM 2023 T695, no. 4 this coin; Whitton [1949], p. 88, no. 4 and Pl. VI, no. 6; Bisham Abbey 1962; Schneider I, 645A different dies [Tower I]; North 1865; Spink 2391), faint friction and die striations to otherwise residually lustrous fields, soft of portrait but well-centered and peripherally sharp, strictly very fine, but on a "mint-sharp" cookie-cutter planchet; the monogram abbreviation "ET" instead of Z seldom encountered on the Half-Sovereign, very rare thus

Provenance
Found by Mr P Astley at Cheddleton (Staffordshire), Saturday 29 April 2023


~ Recorded with National Museums Liverpool (ref. PAS: LVPL-797522) ~



C A Whitton, writing for the BNJ (1949, pp. 56-89, and Pls. I-VII), stated: "I.m. Arrow. The initial mark is normally on both sides, but occasionally on obverse only. There is neither mark nor letter below the shield. The stops are usually lozenges or pierced crosses ("incurved mascles") sometimes combined with saltires. Those with pierced crosses read Angl and have the E monogram for Z (PI. VI, 6, 7)"

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Estimate
£3,000 to £4,000

Starting price
£3000