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Auction: 3024 - The Slaney Collection of English Coins
Lot: 21

Edward VI, third period, fine issue, Halfcrown, 15.80g., 1551, m.m. y, king crowned and in armour holding sword, on horseback walking right, the horse richly caparisoned and with plume on head, date below, reads agl fra z hiber, rev. long cross fourchée over royal shield, :posui. deum:a divtor e'.mev'.y: (N.1934; S.2479), finely toned and perfectly struck on a full round flan, extremely fine, very rare thus, believed to be the best known specimen Estimate £2,500-3,000 provenance: M Trattle, Sotheby, 30 May 1832, lot 636 (part) Lieut. Col. W Durrant, Sotheby, 19 April 1847, lot 413 J B Bergne, Sotheby, 20 May 1873, lot 536 ("believed to be the finest known") W Brice, collection purchased en bloc by H Montagu, 1887 H Montagu, Sotheby, 11 May 1896, lot 841 W C Hazlitt, Sotheby, 5 July 1909, lot 1068 ("very rare in so perfect a state") R C Lockett, Glendining, 11 October 1956, lot 1904

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