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Auction: 5028 - The Samuel King Collection of Highly Important British Gold Coins
Lot: 31

xHenry VIII, third coinage, Half-sovereign, 6.01g., Tower mint, king with bearded portrait seated facing on throne, holding ord and sceptre, rose below, reads HENRIC 8, rev. crowned shield with lion and dragon supporters, HR monogram below, large Roman lettering, lombardic n in TRANSIE, trefoil/saltire stops, m.m. pellet in annulet (Whitton type II(b), variant 3; c.f. Schneider 616; N.1827; S.2294), on a small ragged flan, double struck on reverse, the portrait clear, fine Estimate £ 400-500

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