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Auction: 5028 - The Samuel King Collection of Highly Important British Gold Coins
Lot: 27

xHenry VIII, second coinage, Sovereign, 15.39g., king enthroned holding orb and sceptre, portcullis at feet, HENRICVS DEI GRACIA REX ANGLIE ET FRANC DNS HIB, rev. square-topped shield in centre of Tudor rose, within double tressure, double saltire stops, m.m. lis (over sunburst on obverse) (Whitton O1d/R4; c.f. Schneider 570/1 (same obv./rev. dies); N.1782; S.2267), a most handsome piece, unusually well struck on a full flan, good very fine, very rare thus Estimate £ 12,000-15,000 PROVENANCE:H Hird, Glendining, 30 May 1961, lot 6D Dupree, collection purchased en bloc by Spink, 1989Spink Numismatic Circular, February 1990, no.128Stack´s, 7 December 1994, lot 2442This coin is struck from the fourth, and last, state of a remarkable obverse die. First used, with m.m. portcullis, during Henry´s first coinage (Whitton O1a), it was overpunched with mintmark sunburst at the beginning of the second coinage (Whitton O1b), and again with a mintmark lis (Whitton O1c), before being extensively reworked on the king´s face, throne and legend (Whitton O1d – this state), c.f. BNJ XXVI pp/67-72 and plates I-II

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