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Auction: 5028 - The Samuel King Collection of Highly Important British Gold Coins
Lot: 29

xHenry VIII, second coinage, George Noble, 4.51g., St. George on horseback spearing dragon, TALI DICA SIGO MES FLVCTVARI NEQVIT, rev. ship bearing rose and cross, h K at sides, HENRIC DI G R AGL Z FRANC DNS HIBERNI, m.m. rose (Whitton p.187, and pl.xii, 14 (same obv. die); c.f. Schneider 576; N.1785; S.2270), an unusually fine example of this famous and emotive coin, with a most impressive provenance, faint scratches on reverse, otherwise well struck on a full flan, good very fine, extremely rare thus Estimate £ 10,000-12,000 PROVENANCE:J D Cuff, Sotheby, 8 June 1854, lot 986Lord Hastings, Sotheby, 15 November 1880, lot 287J E Moon, Sotheby, 7 May 1901, lot 95T Bliss, Sotheby, 22 March 1916, lot 256A Mann, Sotheby, 29 October 1917, lot 266E C Carter, collection purchased en bloc by Baldwins, 1950G V Doubleday, Glendining, 20 November 1961, lot 90R D Beresford-Jones, Spink Auction 29, 2 June 1983, lot 32Spink Auction 97, 13 May 1993, lot 6L M LaRiviere, Spink Auction 124, 18 November 1997, lot 1729

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