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Auction: 26022 - The Hambleden Hoard: The Most Important Trove of Black Death Coins Ever Found
Lot: 1552

Henry VIII († 28 January 1547), Posthumous Issues, struck under Edward VI, Half-Sovereign, 5 April 1547 - 24 January 1549, in 20ct Gold, Southwark (Suffolk House, London), HENRIC ? 8 • DEI • GR' | AGL ? FRA ? Z • HIB ['• R]EX •, lozenge stops and longer comma contractions, King enthroned, with Edwardian features, holding orb and sceptre, Tudor Rose below, rev. • (i.m.) • IHS • AVTEM • TRANSIENS • PERMEDI • ILLOR[ •] IBAT • pellet stops crowned shield with Lion and Griffin Royal supporters, E below, HR in cartouche in exergue, [Spink XRF: 0.846 Fine AV], 6.02g [92.90grns], 4h, i.m. -/E (BM 2023 T695, no. 8 this coin; Whitton [1949], p. 88 and Pl. VII, nos. 3, 4, 7 and 10; Bisham Abbey 1976; Schneider I, 666 [Southwark]; North 1866; Spink 2394), small area of die clash at 10 o'clock, otherwise a sublime example for this notoriously soft issue from the short-lived "Liberty" at Brandon Place, subtle golden-orange tone accentuating underlying mint lustre on a broad found planchet, a really wholesome good very fine to approaching extremely fine in places; truly rare in this state and on a "mint-sharp" cookie-cutter planchet

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


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


The Mint was only in operation from 1545 until July 1551. An Act of the Privy Council of August 1551 ordered: "Sir Edmund Pekham and Sir John York were ordered 'to cleanse the howse of Southworke Place and to repayre it, leaveng it in as goode astate as thei founde it'

https://www.britnumsoc.org/publications/Digital%20BNJ/pdfs/1964_BNJ_33_20.pdf



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Estimate
£5,000 to £8,000

Starting price
£5000