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Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,993
DATED 1547 AD
4" (267 grams, 10cm).
A wrought iron obverse die used to strike a hammered billon denar coin of Ferdinand I (1526-1564 AD), probably from the royal mint at Kremnitz; the shaft of rectangular section, reducing to a circular die face depicting the Hungarian arms with date above and FERDINAND D G R VNG legend, all reversed and incuse; the head of the die showing burring from being hammered in striking coins; the corresponding reverse for this coin would depict Mary, crowned and seated and holding the infant Jesus with PATRONA VNGARIE legend; accompanied by an impression taken from the this die and a print showing the coin type produced.
PROVENANCE:
From an important English collection; acquired in the 1990s.
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