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Auction: 17011 - The Academic Collection of Lord Stewartby: English Coins Part 5, Tudor and Stuart Coins
Lot: 1647

Edward VI (1547-53), coinage in the name of Henry VIII, Groats (3), all Tower mint, 2.19g, m.m. k/-, henric 8 d g agl fra z hib rex, lozenge stops, crowned facing bust 5, rev. posvi dev adivtore mev, cross stops, long cross over shield, crescents in forks; 1.65g, m.m. -/martlet, otherwise as above; 2.59g, m.m. grapple, bust 6, rev. half roses on cross ends (N.1871; S.2403; Stewartby p.526; Laker G1, H, J1), fair to good fine, mostly rare (3)

The weight of the second coin might indicate a contemporary forgery, though the lettering does not support this.

provenance:
(i) H M Lingford
(ii) Shirley-Fox bequest 1939
C E Blunt
(iii) Bt Spink, March 1995

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