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Auction: 3011 - The Colin Adams Collection of British Pennies, Foreign Coins & Medals
Lot: 392

Edward IV, first reign (1461-70), light coinage, Half-ryal, 3.79g., London, type VII, king standing facing in ship, holding sword and shield, rose on ship's side, banner inscribed e at stern, rev. rose upon radiate sun in centre of floriated cross, small trefoils in spandrels, trefoil stops, m.m. crown over sun on rev. only (Schneider -; N.1554; S.1959), very fine, the reverse better, rare Estimate £ 800-1,000 provenance: Purchased Corbett & Hunter, Newcastle The only London mint half-ryal overmark recorded by Blunt & Whitton is sun over crown, type VIII(B), recorded from a single example in the British Museum. Both the obverse and reverse dies of this piece are hitherto unrecorded and the overmark appears to be, if anything, crown over sun

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