Watch List notes:

AU53 | Edward VI (1547-1553), Second Period, First Issue, Crown, 24 January 1549 - 12 April 1549, Tower, EDWARD : VI : D : G : AGL : FR • Z • HIB : REX, crowned oval and elaborately garnished shield, dividing E-R, rev. (m.m.) SCVTVM : FIDEI : PROTEGET : EVM :, youthful bare head and cuirassed bust right, double lozenge stops, 2.66g [41.1grns], 9h, p.m. arrow/- (HCN 48; Potter 1(b); Lockett 1863 this coin; Schneider I, 676 same dies; North 1913; Spink 2441), adjustment marks to peripheries and a hint of creasing, otherwise somewhat bright, the portrait otherwise bold, especially amongst the finer hair detailing, near very fine, extremely rare and with an excellent pedigree, in NGC 'Horace Hird' holder, graded AU53 (Cert. #6135299-014).
Provenance
A Lost Parcel from the Celebrated Horace Hird Collection
R C Lockett, Part II, Glendining, 11-17 October 1956, lot 1863 - very fine and extremely rare - £100.0.0
Alexander Mann, Sotheby's, 29 October 1917, lot 287 - very fine and rare - £8.15.0 [Baldwin for Lockett]
Thomas Bliss, Sotheby's, 22 March 1916, lot 270 - very fine and rare - £10.0.0 [Mann]
H Osborne O'Hagan, Sotheby's, 16-20 December 1907, lot 84 - very fine and rare - £5.2.6 [Baldwin for Bliss]
Henry Clark, Sotheby's, 23-26 May 1898, lot 136 - fine and very rare - £7.0.0 [O'Hagan]
Simpson Rostron, Sotheby's, 16 May 1892, lot 132 - fine and very rare [Verity for Clark]
Montagu, Third Duplicates, Sotheby's, 7 May 1888, lot 195 - very fine and rare - £7.10.0 [Rostron]
Brice, collection purchased en bloc by Montagu, 1887

Estimate: £4000 - £6000