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Auction: 21064 - The Horace Hird Collection of Tudor, Stuart and Commonwealth Coins and Patterns
Lot: 44

AU55 | Henry VIII (1509-1547), Posthumous Issue or "First Coinage", temp.. Edward VI, [20ct.], Sovereign, 1547-1549, Bristol Castle, (Under-Treasurer, William Sharrington), (WS) * HENRIC * 8 * DEI *' GRA '* AGL '* FRAN * Z * HIB '* REX * rosette stops, mature Holbeinesque portrait of King holding orb and sceptre, seated on ornamented throne with very fine latice work and pellet backing, flanked by pillars, Tudor Rose below, rev. (WS) ihS : AVTEM : TRAnSIEnS : PER : MEDIVM : ILLOR : IBAT, rosette stops, crowned Royal shield flanked by supporters, HR in cartouche below, Roman lettering, 12.60g [194.3grns], 8h, m.m. WS (HCN 19; Montagu II, 709 same dies; Murdoch -; Lockett - [cf. 1754]; BM E.7 same dies; BM 1920.0816.259 same dies; BNJ, Vol. 24 (1942-1944), pp. 147 and Pl. II, no. 22 this coin; Whitton, Pl. XXIII, no. 3 same dies; Schneider - [cf. II, 639A]; North 1864; Spink 2390), a hint of smoothing to edge with a very subtle flan wave, otherwise on a neat round flan, lustrous with a trace of residual tone, a pleasing very fine and a remarkable transitional issue struck late in the lifetime of the indomitable Tudor monarch or early in the reign of his son, excessively rare and unrepresented in the Murdoch, Lockett, Schneider or Tyrant collections, in NGC 'Horace Hird' holder, graded AU55 (Cert. #6135299-044)

Provenance
A Lost Parcel from the Celebrated Horace Hird Collection
Fred Baldwin, private treaty to Hird, c. 1949
BNS, Ordinary Meeting, 23 April 1947:
"Mr Albert Baldwin exhibited for Mr Whitton's paper a Bristol Sovereign of Henry VIII, with i.m. WS both sides and Roman lettering, wt. 195grns."
'An Exhibition of Coins of Henry VIII', 1942-1944, and Pl. II, no. 22 this coin
Baldwin Family Collection

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Sold for
£56,000

Starting price
£10000