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Auction: 4013 - Ancient, English, Foreign and Islamic Coins
Lot: 239

†Elizabeth I, sixth issue, Crown, 29.71g., m.m. 2, bust 9A, crowned bust left holding sceptre and orb, three fingers of hand visible, rev. long cross fourchee over square shield (N.2012; S.2582A), an unusually fine specimen of this difficult date, full round and neatly struck, very fine, very rare thus Estimate £ 4,000-5,000 provenance: J J Nunn, Sotheby, 27 November 1896, lot 351 Col. H W Morrieson, Sotheby, 20 November 1933, lot 316 H H Snellenburg, collection purchased en bloc by Spink, 1965 E M Norweb, Spink Auction 59, 17 June 1987, lot 1408

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