Details
LOT 4510
English AE Coin Weight for the Gold Half Ryal. 15th century AD.
Half-length facing bust of King, holding sword and shield, in ship sailing to right, adorned with rose / Blank. Cf. Withers 203. Condition as seen.(3.43gr, 15mm.).
Provenance
Found Gloucestershire, UK.
Acquired from the early 1980s.
From the private collection of a late Gloucestershire, UK, gentleman; thence by descent.
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