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Auction 22004  23 Jan 2022
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Lot 168

Starting price: 1500 GBP
Price realized: 4000 GBP
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The Lost Collection of Simon English Esq. | Edward IV, First Reign (1461-1470), Light Coinage, Half-Ryal, c. 1467-1470, Type VII, York, ED | WARD * DI * GRA * REX * ANGL * S * FRANC, trefoil stops, King standing in ship, holding sword and shield, E on standard, E in waves below, ropes 3/1, quatrefoils 3/3, ornaments 1- | -1, rev. DOMINE * NE * IN * FVRORE * TVO : ARGVAS : ME, trefoil stops, ornate cross fleury, crowned leopards in angles, 3.73g [59.2grns], 8h, p.m. rose and lys [on reverse only] (Blunt & Whitton VI [Pl. XI, no. 10]; Webb Ware dies 14/21; Fletcher 39 same dies; Lockett 3129 same dies; cf. Schneider I, 424-425; North 1558; Spink 1963), struck with aged and rusty dies, otherwise a bolder very fine, rare.
Provenance
The Lost Collection of Simon English Esq.
Glendining, 19 May 1964, lot 286 - £131.5.0 [Spink for English]
Estimate: £2000 - £3000
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