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Auction: 3011 - The Colin Adams Collection of British Pennies, Foreign Coins & Medals
Lot: 380

Edward III, third coinage, Noble, 8.23g., London, third period, king standing facing in ship, holding sword upright and shield, edwar d gra rex angl z franc dns hyb, rev. floriated cross with lis at ends, large e in centre, ihc transiens per medivm illorvm ibat, large letters with chevron-barred a's, double saltire stops, m.m. cross pattée on rev. only (Potter II(a), obv. die 12; Schneider -; N.1110; S.1481), small striking crack at 5 o'clock, good very fine, very rare Estimate £ 2,500-3,000 provenance: Recorded as found near Bordeaux A Mann, Sotheby, 29 October 1917, lot 207 Potter, NC 1963, subdivides the Edward III third period nobles into types I and II. Type II has larger lettering and the design is engraved in a less detailed, more florid, style. It is easily identified by the bowsprit which passes through, rather than behind, the forecastle. There is no example in the Schneider collection.

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