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Auction: 26022 - The Hambleden Hoard: The Most Important Trove of Black Death Coins Ever Found
Lot: 1553

Edward VI (1547-1553), Second Period, Second Issue, Half-Sovereign, 12 April 1549 - April 1550, in 22ct Gold, Tower (London), (m.m.) • EDWARD .' VI : D .' G .' AGL .' FRA .' Z : HIB .' REX • small square stops, crowned and cuirassed bust right, rev. (m.m.) SCVTVM * FIDEI * PROTEGET * EVM * rosette stops, crowned oval shield dividing E-R, [Spink XRF: 0.846 Fine AV], 5.39g [83.18grns], 8h, m.m. arrow/arrow (BM 2023 T695, no. 9 this coin; Bisham Abbey -; cf. 1982-1983; Schneider I, 672; North 1911; Spink 2438), traces of doubling to portrait and legends, and with mint-issued raggedness to rims, otherwise fully lustrous, and entirely original, an honestly bold very fine, but truly as issued and on a "mint-sharp" cookie-cutter planchetP>

Provenance
Found by Mr P Astley at Cheddleton (Staffordshire), Saturday 29 April 2023


~ Recorded with National Museums Liverpool (ref. PAS: LVPL-797522) ~

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Estimate
£5,000 to £8,000

Starting price
£5000