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Auction 19051  27 Jun 2019
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Lot 84

Starting price: 1200 GBP
Price realized: 3800 GBP
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Edward IV, First Reign (1461-70), Ryal, Tower, type VI, 7.71g [119.0gns], 8h, m.m. -/sun, single trefoil stops, including after dns i b, double after di, ropes 3/1, ornaments 1-|-1, quatrefoils 3/3, rev. reads tranniens, first n over e and similarly d over e in medivm, double trefoil stops, single after ihc' avt', nothing after per, large trefoils in spandrels (Kenyon {1884}, pp. 59, MB.5; Webb Ware {1985}, pp. 100, table 3, no. 7; Blunt and Whitton, type V/VI; Spink 213, 27-28 June 2012, lot 438, same dies; Stewartby III {'class VI'}, 953; Schneider I, 346; N.1549; S.1950), good very fine, the legend variety recorded in 1884, and confirmed in Webb Ware's 1985 corpus to originate from a single reverse die, this being the third example traced by the cataloguer, and by far the finest, very rare.
provenance
Wayne, CNG 73, 13 September 2006, lot 1254
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For die study, see T G Webb Ware, 'Dies and Designs: The English Gold Coinage: 1465-1485: Part 1", BNJ {1985}, pp. 95-133.
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000
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