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Auction: 5020 - The Ivan Buck Collection and Other Properties
Lot: 270

Henry VI, Groat, 3.44g., London, cross-pellet (A) coinage, cross IIIb/none, saltires by neck, leaf and fleur on breast, pellets by crown, rev. extra pellets in TAS and DON quarters, (Whitton 66b; S.1934; N.1516) struck on a rather small flan, otherwise a good example, the leaf on breast and other marks clear, almost very fine, extremely rare Estimate £ 500-600PROVENANCE: Stamford No. 2 Hoard, 1866 The cross-pellet [A] Groat, with a saltire each side of neck, rather than one saltire on the neck, is one of the rarest of all Henry VI varieties. The Walters (1913) catalogue quotes "four known" and today probably no more than six survive. The only example to have appeared at auction since 1960, it is the Delme-Radcliffe coin, (lot 150, also on a small flan), which was subsequently in the Dupree collection. The old ticket with this coin states "from Stamford Find, lot 353". The only parcel of coins from this find recorded by Manville & Robertson was that sold on behalf of the Stamford Institute by Cade & Son, Stamford on 1 June 1910, but all 76 groats offered were placed in a single lot, lot 160!

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