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Auction: 21006 - British Hammered and Milled Coins: Summer Auction
Lot: 105

AU55 | Henry VIII (1509-1547), Second Coinage, Sovereign, 1538-1541, [Tariffed at 22s6d], hENRICVS : DEI : GRACIA : R[EX] | + ANGLIE : ET : FRANC .' DNS : hIB .', saltire stops, dies refurbished with re-punched legends, King enthroned, holding sword and sceptre, fretted throne back, rev. IhESUS : AVTEM : TRANSIENS : PER : MEDIVM : ILLORVM : IBAT '., Royal Shield atop Tudor Rose in elaborate double tressure, saltire in spandrels, 15.32g, 8h, m.m. Lis 3 [over sunburst on obverse] (Murdoch 408; Whitton O1d/R4; Potter [1955], pp. 567; Hird [1961], 6; King 27 same dies; Schneider I, 570/571 same dies; North 1782; Spink 2267), traces of reddish tone, otherwise an honest an uniformly struck example of this most iconic coin, struck from a remarkable obverse die that transcended Henry's first and Second Coinages, very fine and very rare, only five traced by this cataloguer in modern commerce, in NGC holder, graded AU55 (Cert. #5880285-002)

Provenance
Dr Paul Broughton, Spink 235, 22 March 2016, lot 429 [via Baldwin, ref. C167009764]
Spink 166, 12 November 2003, lot 11 - £13,000
Glendining, 19 June 1974, lot 8 - £4,000
W L Raynes, Glendining, 15-17 February 1950, lot 74 - 'very fine and very rare' - £95.0.0 [Seaby]
R Huth, Sotheby's, 4 April 1927, lot 34 - £18.0.0 [Spink for Raynes]



This coin is struck from the fourth, and last, state of a remarkable obverse die. First used, with m.m. portcullis, during Henry's first coinage (Whitton O1a), it was overpunched with mintmark sunburst at the beginning of the second coinage (Whitton O1b), and again with a mintmark lis (Whitton O1c), before being extensively reworked on the king's face, throne and legend (Whitton O1d – this state), c.f. BNJ XXVI pp/67-72 and plates I-II



Corpus: [Rud V, 2]


i) King (Spink 167, 5 May 2005, lot 27); (Stack's, 7 December 1994, lot 2442); T W J D Dupree (SNC, February 1990, no. 128); Hird (Glendining, 30 May 1961, lot 6)


ii) Clearwater (CNG E-Auction 312, 9 October 2013, lot 24); (Spink 206, 1-2 December 2010, lot 897); (Spink, privately, November 1995); J G Murdoch, (Part I, Sotheby's, 31 March 1903, lot 408 - £20.0.0); H Clark (Sotheby's, 23 May 1898, lot 121 - £15.5.0); Whittaker, (Sotheby's, 2 May 1894, lot 24 - £16.15.0)


iii) (BSJ 49, 27 October 2020, lot 1028 - unsold); (Spink, 24 September 2013, lot 539)


iv) (UBS 76, 22 January 2008, lot 2500); R C Lockett (Part III, Glendining, 4-6 November 1958, lot 3211 - £195.0.0 [Baldwin]


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Sold for
£52,000

Starting price
£40000