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Auction: 21064 - The Horace Hird Collection of Tudor, Stuart and Commonwealth Coins and Patterns
Lot: 45

AU55 | Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Second 'Restoration' Coinage, Sixth Issue [Fine Gold], Double Rose Noble or 'Fine Sovereign' [of 30-Shillings], (Pyx Period: 20 April 1584 - 13 February 1585), Tower, ELIZABETH : D .' G .' ANG .' | FRA .' ET : HIB .' REGINA : (m.m.) : Queen seated on ornamented throne with very fine latice work and pellet backing, holding orb and sceptre, flanked by pellet-adorned pillars, Portcullis below atop ornate tressure through which it and only her crown breaks, rev. (m.m.) • A • DNO • FACTV .' EST • ISTVD • ET • EST • MIRAB .' IN . OCVLIS . NRS • Royal Shield set atop Tudor Rose, spandrels plain, 15.26g [235.4grns], 6h, m.m. A (HCN 77; Brown and Comber A9 [Type i b]; Lockett 4088 = Schneider I, 778 same dies; North 2003; Spink 2529), old superficial marks on portrait, otherwise sumptously cabinet toned with an imposing reddish appearance, a most pleasing very fine, rare thus, in NGC 'Horace Hird' holder, graded AU55 (Cert. #6135299-045)

Provenance
A Lost Parcel from the Celebrated Horace Hird Collection
Dr Carter, collection purchased en bloc by Baldwin, 1950



Brown and Comber record three instances of this privy mark for denomination as listed in the Spink Numismatic Circular and Seaby Bulletin between 1937 and 1983. Challis records the mint output for this Pyx Period at £44,558 for Fine Gold.

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Sold for
£55,000

Starting price
£15000