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Details
LOT 3159
Plantagenet. Edward III AR Halfpenny. 1335-1343. London (Tower) mint. Second coinage.
✠ ЄDWARDVS REX ANG with six-pointed star after, crowned facing bust, drapery composed of two wedges. / CIVI-TAS LON-DON, long cross pattée with three pellets in angles. Cf. SCBC 1540. Fine.(0.60gr, 16mm, 10h.).
Provenance
Acquired on the UK art market since the early 2000s.
Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman, thence by descent.
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