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Auction: 5028 - The Samuel King Collection of Highly Important British Gold Coins
Lot: 39

xEdward VI, third period, Half-sovereign, 5.79g., half length figure of king in armour right, crowned, carrying sword and orb, reads FRA Z HIB, rev. crowned square shield with E R at sides, crown not frosted, I HS AVTE TRANCIEN PER ME ILLO IB, large lettering, double pellet/pellet stops, m.m. y (c.f. Schneider 693; N. 1928; S.2451), struck on a full flan, good very fine, rare of this mintmark Estimate £ 2,500-3,000 PROVENANCE:V J E Ryan, Glendining, 28 June 1950, lot 252Spink Auction 81, 19 November 1990, lot 27The lettering on third coinage half-sovereigns with mintmark y is often much larger that that on the normal coins with mintmark tun. The reverse legend is, as a result, unusually abbreviated

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