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Auction: 21004 - The Sir Rodney Sweetnam KCVO CBE Collection of English Gold Coins and Other Properties - Conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 26

Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Fine Sovereign of 30-Shillings, 1584-1586, Sixth Coinage, Tower, ELIZABETH • D.' G.' ANG.' FRA.' ET.' HIB.' REGINA •, Queen enthroned, holding orb and sceptre, rev. A•DNO.' FACTV.' EST. ISTVD. ET. EST MIRAB.' IN. OCVLIS. NRIS, shield atop Tudor rose, 15.43g, 5h, m.m. escallop (Spink 2529; cf. Schneider I, 780-81, albeit the reading NRIS not represented; N.2003), light tone, a pleasingly good very fine and with a solid pedigree

provenance
Hamilton-Smith, Part III, Glendining, 23 May 1927, lot 16 - £18.10.0
Talbot-Ready, Sotheby, 15-19 November 1920, lot 589 - £14.0.0 (Baldwin)



The highly-specialised Christopher Comber Collection of Elizabethan featured the mintmark crescent/crescent over escallop issue also once found in the Talbot-Ready cabinet and subsequent neighbouring lot (590 - £20.0.0) in his 1920 sale. A century later it went on to achieve an impressive £90,000 (incl. BP).

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Sold for
£45,000

Starting price
£20000