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Auction: 14005 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 697

Edward IV (1461-83), bust / rose-on-sun coinage, 1467-70 Double Groat, 2.71g, Drogheda, m.m. rose, crowned facing bust with tressure, fleurs on cusps, edwardvs dei gra dns hybern, double saltire stops, rev. villa de [dro]heda, roses and suns divding legend (S.6292), bent, an uncleaned field find, good detail for these issues, nearly very fine, extremely rare

provenance
Found near Wooton under Edge, Gloucestershire, December 2013
Recored witH the Portable Antiquities Scheme, GLO-97F4C8

It is thought that no more than 30 examples of rose-on-sun coinage Groat exist for all mints with most in public collections. Of these around 10 are thought to be of the Drogheda mint.


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£5,800