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Auction: 5020 - The Ivan Buck Collection and Other Properties
Lot: 356

Richard III (1483-85), Groat, 3.10g., type 2a, London, in the name of Edward, EDWARD DI GRA REX ANGL Z FRANC, m.m. boar´s head 1 over sun and rose 1/sun and rose 1, (S.2155; N.1679) struck slightly off-centre on an irregular flan, light scratch on king´s name, some black deposit on surface, otherwise a strong portrait coin, very fine or better, extremely rare Estimate £ 2,000-2,500PROVENANCE: Ticket notes metal detector find, June 2001 Lessen records four Edward IV/V sun & rose 1 obverse dies as being subsequently over-punched with the boar´s head 1 mark, dies A-D, BNJ 1983 p.182. This is only the second known example of this particular obverse die, Lessen die D.

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