Auction: 5020 - The Ivan Buck Collection and Other Properties
Lot: 268
Henry VI, Halfgroat, 1.68g., London, unmarked coinage, crosses IIIb/none, rev.extra pellets in TAS and LON quarters, (Whitton 38a; S.1933; N.1515) small edge crack at 11 o´ clock, struck from a worn obverse die, othwerwise a neat round coin, almost very fine, extremely rare Estimate £ 500-600PROVENANCE:
D Greenhalgh, by exchange, April 1997
The unmarked issue Halfgroat is even rarer than the corresponding Groat. The last example to have appeared at auction, was sold in Glendining 5 July 1972, lot 219
Sold for
£680