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Auction: 12027 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 40

Mary (sole rule, 1553-54), Ryal, 7.53g, mdliii (1553), m.m. pomegranate, queen, crowned, standing facing, in a ship with flag with letter m on bow castle and rose on hull, holding sword in right hand and left hand resting on shield, annulet stops, rev. rose over radiate sun over floriate cross, crowned leopard in angles, single annulet stops (Schneider 709 - same obverse die, different reverse die; N.1957; S.2489), an unusually fine and attractive example, struck on a full flan, good very fine, extremely rare, one of the most distinctive and important coins in the English hammered gold series

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£165,000