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Auction: 4002 - The Marshall Collection of British & World Coins
Lot: 17

Elizabeth I, fifth issue, Pound, 11.11g., bust 7A, crowned bust left with long hair and richly ornamented dress, rev., crowned square-topped shield with e r at sides, colon/double annulet stops, m.m. tun (Brown & Comber F4; Schneider 798 (same dies); N.2008; S.2534), very slightly double struck on obverse, the dies of exceptionally fine workmanship, extremely fine, very rare thus Estimate £ 5,000-6,000 provenance: Spink Numismatic Circular, May 1942, no.14270 £24-0-0 ('almost perfect') Brown and Comber suggest that Seaby Coin and Medal Bulletin, April 1973 (G2378), a die duplicate of this coin, may have a lion erased from the obverse die above the crown, but there is no trace of an erasure on this finer example

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£12,000