Baldwin's of St. James's
Auction 13 27 Nov 2017
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British Coins, Elizabeth I, milled coinage, sixpence, mm. lis, 1566/4/2, crowned bust with low ruff facing l., rose behind, rev. long cross fourchée over shield of arms, date above shield (S.2598A), creased and therefore flat in places, otherwise about very fine, exceedingly rare - one of only ten coins in private hands
*ex R. Carlyon-Britton (sold Seaby 1963), R.C.-B. No. 15274, cabinet VIII, coin no. 406. Original ticket with coin.
85% of Mestrelle's meagre experimental machine-made coins were sixpences dated 1562. This leaves 15% for all the other dated sixpences, shillings, groats, half-groats, three-farthings and the gold coinage. Therefore this 1566/4/2 sixpence is extremely rare - in fact, of the 18 traced, 8 are in museum collections.
(150-200 GBP)
*ex R. Carlyon-Britton (sold Seaby 1963), R.C.-B. No. 15274, cabinet VIII, coin no. 406. Original ticket with coin.
85% of Mestrelle's meagre experimental machine-made coins were sixpences dated 1562. This leaves 15% for all the other dated sixpences, shillings, groats, half-groats, three-farthings and the gold coinage. Therefore this 1566/4/2 sixpence is extremely rare - in fact, of the 18 traced, 8 are in museum collections.
(150-200 GBP)