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Auction XX  29-30 Oct 2020
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Lot 913

Estimate: 7500 GBP
Price realized: 13 000 GBP
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Great Britain, Tudor. Edward VI (1547-1553) AV Half Sovereign. Third issue, Crown Gold coinage. Southwark mint, struck 1551. У : ЄDWΛRD' • VI : D' • G' • ΛGL' : FRΛ' • Z : ҺIB' • RЄX :, crowned and armoured bust right, holding sword over right shoulder and globus cruciger in left hand / У • IҺS' • ΛVTЄ' • TRΛꞂCI' • PERᙏЄD' • ILLO' • IBΛ' •, crowned coat-of-arms; E-R across fields. SCBC 2451; Potter, Coinage 2b; Schneider 693 (same obv. die); North 1928; Friedberg 187. 5.51g, 32mm, 5h.

Good Extremely Fine; with a particularly well struck portrait of Edward. Rare thus.

From the Long Valley River Collection;
Ex G.W. Trow Collection;
Ex P. Broughton Collection, Spink & Son Ltd, Auction 235, 22 March 2016, lot 435 (hammer: £15,000);
Ex Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, Auction 122, 14 March 2007, lot 2086.
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