Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
November 1920
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/457
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    470 473 474 475 476 477 478 479 43 Third Day Angels (2), same m. m., one unusually well spread and clearly struck, but probably of foreign work 2 Angel, m.m. pierced cross on obv. only, rather crumpled; Half Angel, m.m. obv. pierced cross, 7ev. same, with pellet in third angle, a sun after VNIGA, fine 2 Half Angel, m.m. annulet on obv. only, saltire stops on obv., pellet stops on vev., the king’s name and titles on both sides, Sine 1 Silver. Heavy Coinage Groats (3), London, m.m. cinquefoil, quatrefoils at neck, #2. 2. cross patonce, lis on neck and pellet each side of crown; rev. m. 7. small lis, two extra pellets in the quar- ters, struck from a die of Henry VI; another, same, except that it has obv. m.m. a plain cross, all very fine and interesting varieties | 2 Heavy Groats, London (3): (a) m. m. plain cross both sides, lis on neck, extra pellets in two quarters of vev. ; (b) m. m. einque- foil, quatrefoils at neck; (c) m.m. rose on obverse, omits the quatrefoils, all very fine 3 Heavy Groat, obv. m.m. pierced cross, vev. rose, quatrefoils at neck; another, mm. m2. rose both sides, annulets at neck; two others, as last, struck from heavy dies, but only weighing 48 grs. each | ' 4 Halfpenny, mm. 7. rose, (DWARD DI GRA’ REX ; rev. CIVITAS LONDON, 6.9 grs., very fine; another, same m.m. annulets each side of neck, 6 grs. moderate ; and a third, with annulet (2), m. m., saltire cross each side of neck, CIVITAS LonDOn, with an eye after TAS, 6.3 grs., a small piece broken out, otherwise fine and unpublished, all very rare 3 Light Coinage Groats, Bristol, m.m. crown, VILLA BRISTOLL ; another, BRISTOW, 7. m. sun; BR&STOW, obv. crown, 7ev. sun, BRISTOW ; and a Half Groat, m.m. crown both sides, VILLA BRISTOLL, all fine, and the half groat very rare ) Half Groat, Bristol, m. m. sun, quatrefoil each side of neck ; rev. VILLA BR&STOW, fine and a very rare m.m. [PI. IV] ] Groats, Bristol (8), various m.m.’s and readings, Coventry (2), Norwich (3), none really fine; and a Bristol Half Groat, m. m. crown, moderate condition 14
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