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Auction 190 6-7 Apr 2021
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The Walter Wilkinson Collection of Coins of Elizabeth I (Part IV: Final)
Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Miscellaneous, Copies and reproductions: Portcullis coinage, 8 Testerns, m.m. 0, an imitation from hand-engraved dies, 32.38g/6h (Pridmore/Wodak, SNC July 1957 and Goldberg 48, 2485, same dies; cf. Lockdales 164, 1764). Extremely fine, toned
£150-£200
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Provenance: D.A. Barr Collection [from P. Wallwork April 1988]; Mark Rasmussen FPL Barr Part II (166); bt M.C.S. Rasmussen November 2004.
Several other specimens are known; the forgery was first unwittingly exposed by Pridmore and Wodak when they illustrated the somewhat lighter specimen in the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia, acquired from Baldwin in October 1932
Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Miscellaneous, Copies and reproductions: Portcullis coinage, 8 Testerns, m.m. 0, an imitation from hand-engraved dies, 32.38g/6h (Pridmore/Wodak, SNC July 1957 and Goldberg 48, 2485, same dies; cf. Lockdales 164, 1764). Extremely fine, toned
£150-£200
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Provenance: D.A. Barr Collection [from P. Wallwork April 1988]; Mark Rasmussen FPL Barr Part II (166); bt M.C.S. Rasmussen November 2004.
Several other specimens are known; the forgery was first unwittingly exposed by Pridmore and Wodak when they illustrated the somewhat lighter specimen in the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia, acquired from Baldwin in October 1932