LOT 3812
England. Lancaster, Henry VI AR Halfpenny. Struck 1454-1461. London (Tower) mint; i.m: plain cross. Cross-pellet issue.
✠ ꞂЄnRIC RЄX AnGL, crowned facing bust; saltire on breast / CIVI-TAS LON-DON, long cross pattée; trefoils in quarters, additional pellet in second quarter. North 1524; SCBC 1943. Good Fine. Pierced. Very rare with one additional pellet on reverse.(0.41gr, 13mm, 3h.).
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.
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England. Plantagenet, Edward III AR Groat. Struck 1354-1355. York mint. Fourth coinage. Pre-treaty period, series E.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
[...]AIIGL ◦ Z ◦ FRANC ◦ D ◦ Һ[...], crowned facing bust, with trefoil on breast; all within tressure of arches with trefoils at cusps / (Cross) POSVI ◦ DЄVᙏ ◦ A-DIVTOR-Є ᙏЄV and CIVI-TAS EBO-RACI, long cross pattée with three pellets in each angle. North 1164; SCBC 1572. 3.45gr, 25mm, 9h.
Near Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market since the early 2000s. Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman, thence by descent. -
England. Plantagenet, Edward III AV Quarter Noble. Struck 1361-1369. Tower (London) mint. Fourth coinage, Treaty period.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £715
✠ ◦ ЄDWARD ˣˣ DЄI ˣˣ GRA ˣˣ RЄX ˣˣ AꞂGL', coat-of-arms within tressure of arches with trefoils on cusps / ✠ ЄXALTABITVR ˣˣ IꞂ ˣˣ GLORIA, cross fleurée, with lis-in-quadrilobe at centre; in each angle, lion passant above lis; all within double polylobe. North 1244; SCBC 1511. 1.89gr, 19mm, 8h.
Very Fine.
From a private East Anglian collection formed since the 1980s. -
England. Plantagenet, Edward I AR Penny. Struck 1305. Canterbury mint. New coinage.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
✠ ЄDWA R ANGL DNS ҺУB, crowned facing bust / CIVI-TAS CAN-TOR, long cross pattée; three pellets in quarters. Cf. SCBC 1419. 1.28gr, 18mm, 7h.
Near Very Fine.
Found Gloucestershire, UK. Acquired from the early 1980s. From the private collection of a late Gloucestershire, UK, gentleman; thence by descent.
