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Auction: 5033 - The Colin Adams Collection of Halfcrowns
Lot: 41

Philip and Mary (1554-58), pattern Halfcrown, 13.52g., 1554, British Museum electrotype copy, bust of Philip in armour right, crown above, date below, PHILLIPVS D G R ANG FR NEAP PR HISP, rev. bust of Mary left, crown dividing date above, MARIA D G R ANG FR NEAP PR HISP (N.1977) portraits worn, about fine Estimate £ 100-150Only three specimens of this remarkable pattern are known. Two are in museums, the Hunterian, Glasgow and the British Museum (from which this electrotype is taken), and the third and best formed lot 1935 in the famous R C Lockett sale in 1956.

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