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Auction 19051  27 Jun 2019
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Lot 41

Starting price: 650 GBP
Price realized: 1400 GBP
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Edward III (1327-77), Noble, Tower, class I, 7.45g [115.0gns], 2h, {Treaty lettering], double saltire stops, ed | ward dei * g * re*x * ang * z * fra : dns : hyb aq | t, annulet before edward, ropes 3/2, ornaments -11-11, quatrefoils 4/3, crescent on forecastle, bowsprit behind, rev. i.m. cross pattée [6], reads mediv', large e in centre (LAL, group I {Post-Treaty/Treaty 'mules'}, pl. XIX, no. 1, same obverse die; Doubleday 281, same dies; Potter 2; cf. Stewartby III {'class I'}, 916; Schneider I, 107, same dies; N.1277; S.1517), creased, and struck with a rusty obverse die, otherwise a bolder fine, very rare.
Purchased Heidelberg, Germany, 20 August 2006
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This coin is die linked to the Doubleday specimen, the obverse of which was noted in study by Lawrence and Whitton to be latterly paired with a Calais reverse die, cf. Glendining, 7-8 June 1972, lots 298-299 and Whitton, BNJ XXIV, pp. 110-112.
Estimate: £800 - £1,000
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