Watch List notes:

Henry VIII, third coinage (1544-47), sovereign, Tower mint, mm. lis, crowned bearded king seated on throne, holding orb and sceptre with large double Tudor rose below feet, rev. lion and griffin supporting crowned royal shield, HR monogram below, wt. 12.84gms. (S.2289; N.1823; Schneider 607), nearly extremely fine, evenly struck on a broad and almost perfectly round flan, king's portrait unusually well defined as is his royal shield and its supporters, the legends complete, bold for type and clearly lettered, with much of the outer rim on each side in evidence, an unusually choice example of this early representation of a golden denomination that has lasted into our own time, a famous piece, extremely rare and the finest known of the three pieces in private hands
£130,000-140,000
*ex British Museum (Sale of Duplicates, 1811)
ex Durrant
ex Bergne
ex Brice
ex Montagu
ex Lockett lot 1751
ex Strauss, Sotheby 26 May 1994, the cover coin