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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    D090 556 558 559 560 561 51 Third Day Half Sovereign, fourth coinage, three-quarter length figure of the king in armour to right, holding sword and orb, m. m. tun, reads FRAN Z HIB REX, scarce and fine ] Half Sovereign, fourth coinage, type as last, m.m. tun, reading FRA CI, fine 1 Crown, same type and m.m., in good state, but has been bent and straightened, a rare coin 1 Silver. First coinage, base szlver. Testoons (3); obv. legend TIMOR DOMINI FONS VITAE MDLIX ; 7°@v. EDWARD VI, etc. ; (a) m. m. arrow on reverse only, very jine and of good silver; (b) m.m. Y both sides, fine;.(c) m.m. bow both sides, very good, all scarce 3 Testoons (10); obv. EDWARD VI, etc.; 7ev. TIMOR, etc., m.m. grapple (4), harp, lis; obv. pheon ; rev. arrow, swan, t, and Y, all very good 10 Testoons (17); obv. INIMICOS EIVS, ete.; rev. king’s name and titles, m.m. bow (2), are, but neither fine ; obv. TIMOR legend (4), all in fair state ; obv. EDWARD VI, ete. ; 7ev. INIMICOS, 7. 72. bow ; and others (7), various mint marks, and three brass pieces ii Testoon, countermarked with a greyhound on king’s shoulder ; another, with portcullis with chains, in front of face, both in gocd state and very rare 9 Testoons (2), countermarked with a portcullis in front of face 2 Groat, m.m. arrow; obv. crowned bust to right, EDWARD 6, DG AG FR S&S HI RA&X; ev. POSVI, etec., square shield on cross fourchée, fine and extremely rare. (PI. IV] 1 Groat, similar to that in last lot ; another, CIVITAS LONDON, edge chipped ; and a Canterbury, Half Groat, rather fine 3 Canterbury, Half Groat, no m.m., EDOARD, etce., fine and rare 1 Penny, Bristol, m.m. trefoil both sides, crowned bust to right, dD? 6-+D26, ete.; rev. CIVITAS (trefoil), BRISTOLIG, square shield, trefoils in legend and in forks of cross, fine and very rare 1 Halfpenny, Bristol; obv. crowned bust to right, €:D:G: RosA (trefoil), SIN@: SPIN +; rev, CIVITAS BRISTOLI, long cross fourchée, with a trefoil in the forks and three pellets in each angle [Pl. IV] 1
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