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Auction: 3011 - The Colin Adams Collection of British Pennies, Foreign Coins & Medals
Lot: 385

Edward III, pre-treaty period, Groat, London, series E, reads rex rngli, rev. unbarred n's in london, annulet stops, m.m. cross 2 (LAL no.36; N.1163; S.1567), old tooling in fields on both sides, otherwise a full round specimen, very fine, the error rare Estimate £ 80-100 provenance : R Carlyon-Britton, collection purchased en bloc by Seaby, 1959 W J W Potter (Numismatic Chronicle, 1960, Pl.XI, no.14 (this coin) G V Doubleday, Glendining, 7 June 1972, lot 429 (part) The accompanying Doubleday ticket, stating that the dies are LAL no.44, has presumably been switched.

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