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Auction: 374 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale at NYINC
Lot: 22

(x) Edward IV or V (12 February - April 1483), Angel, "Type XXII", Tower, EDWARD DEI GRA REX ANGL FRANC, saltire stops, St. Michael vanquishing Dragon, rev. PER CRVCEM TVA SALVA NOS XPE REDEMPT, ship surmounted by square-topped shield and mast dividing E and Rose, saltire stops, 5.13g, 5h, m.m. halved sun-and-rose (Blunt and Whitton XXII; Webb-Ware dies 1/2; Schneider I, 469 [Edward IV]; North 1626; Spink 2144), dig to reverse field and flattened, otherwise a really bold fine, extremely rare and with a sound provenance

Provenance
Seaby, 20 February 1974 - £500 [Inventory no. 740531]
SCMB, December 1972, G1900 - though at one time coins of this very rare mintmark were attributed to Edward V, opinion now favours the last year of the reign of Edward IV, Plate 96, good F, rare - £175
Christopher Corbally-Browne, Sotheby's, 25-28 March 1935, lot 236 - fine and extremely rare [not a nice coin] - £20.0.0 [Seaby]
Augustus Thellusson, First Portion, Glendining, 19-20 October 1931, lot 20 [and Pl. I, no. 24] * - Edward V, Angel, m.m. rose and sun dimidiated, type as the Angels of Edward IV, fine and extremely rare - £23.0.0 [Seaby for Corbally-Browne]
Dr R T Cassel, Glendining, 3-4 December 1924, lot 223 - in very good preservation, and of extreme rarity - £16.10.0 [Thellusson]


Pioneering die study by Webb-Ware has identified a tight pairing of four dies, typically delineated by the expansion 'DEI' rather than 'DI' in the obverse legend. This probably identifies these (and the present specimen) as a very late Edward IV issue, although the aspiration of owning a coin struck for the incarcerated 'Princes in the Tower' will render this an enduringly popular type, as evidenced by the incredible price realisations witnessed for this very coin in the 1920s and 1930s.

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Sold for
$11,000

Starting price
$3000