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Auction: 374 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale at NYINC
Lot: 21

(x) Henry VI, Readeption (October 1470 - April 1471), 'Restored' Angel, Lis Group, "York", hENRICVS + DEI + GRA +' REX ANGL '+ S + FRANC, saltire stops, St. Michael vanquishing Dragon, rev. PER CR|VCE'. TVA ' SALVA . NOS XPE REDEMTOR . trefoil stops, ship surmounted by square-topped shield and mast dividing h and Lis, 4.94g, 5h, no m.m. (R Carlyon-Britton [BNJ XVII, 1923], pp. 129, no. 3 and Pl., no. 8 same dies; Allen [1937], dies G/n; Blunt and Whitton [1945], type 5/9; Schneider I, 448 same dies; North 1613; Spink 2078), crimped and creased resulting in a minor flan split, slight graffiti in obverse and reverse fields, otherwise on a notably round and broad flan, a pleasingly uniform striking for this elusive series, a bolder very fine, very rare

Provenance
Glendining, 13 March 1974, lot 16 - nery fine but crack in centre of flan and scratched in reverse field, very rare - £1,000 [Seaby]
SCMB, no. 593 - £17.10.0
V J E Ryan, Part I, Glendining, 28-30 June 1950, lot 57 - slightly cracked, otherwise very fine and rare - £11.0.0 (Seaby) [with his ticket]

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Sold for
$4,800

Starting price
$1500