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Auction: 5028 - The Samuel King Collection of Highly Important British Gold Coins
Lot: 30

xHenry VIII, third coinage, Sovereign, 12.06g., Tower mint, type IIb, small module, king with bearded portrait seated facing on throne, holding orb and sceptre, throne with curved sides, rose at feet, HENRIC 8 DI GRA AGL FRANCIE Z HIBER REX, rev. crowned shield with lion and dragon supporters, HR in cartouche below, reads TRANCIENS, double sleeve/slipped trefoil stops, gothic/Roman E´s, m.m. lis (Whitton dies C/d; c.f. Schneider 609 (same obv. die); N.1824; S.2290), lightly smoothed on edge, faint crease to right of throne, otherwise a full round coin, almost very fine, rare Estimate £ 4,000-5,000

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