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Auction: 4002 - The Marshall Collection of British & World Coins
Lot: 307

Mary, Half-testoon, 3.05g., third period, 1561, bust of Mary left in French bonnet, date below in tablet, rev., crowned arms of France and Scotland, plain fillet to crown, crowned M each side (B 2, fig. 902; S.5423), the reverse struck slightly off-centre, otherwise an excellent specimen, evenly toned, very fine, very rare thus Estimate £ 3,000-4,000 provenance: R W Cochran-Patrick, Sotheby, 30 March 1936, lot 257 Spink Numismatic Circular, July 1942, no.15410 £21-0-0

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