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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    587 588 D89 590 591 595 596 597 598 599 600 ELIZABETH, 1558-1602. Gold. Fine.Sovereign, m. m. scallop, 1584-1601, usual type of queen’ seated, portcullis at feet, very fine, and with good portratt, 1 Fine Sovereign, as last, equally fine i Another, same m. m. reading NRIS, instead of NRS, on reverse, a very fine well struck piece 1 Fine Sovereign, m. m. crescent, 1584-1601, the reverse m. m. is over a scallop, very fine, and a scarce m. m. [PI. 1V] 1 Pound Sovereign, m. m. woolpack, FRA? ET + HI: REGINA, pellet stops on obverse, double annulet on reverse, very fine ] Another, same m. m. reading HIB: with single annulet stops on both sides, extra fine me 1 Pound Sovereign, m. m. 2, for 1602, very fine and arare m.m. 1 Ryal, m. m. scallop on reverse only, obv. the queen standing in ship; vev. floreate cross, with a radiate rose in centre, very rare, and extremely fine ! 1 Ryal, the m. m. on reverse only, has been obliterated in the die (an uncertain object over a scallop), there is a trefoil of dots after REGINA, obverse very fine, reverse a little double struck [Pl. IV] 1 Half Sovereign, m. m. cross-crosslet (2), reading FR and FRA, both very Sine ; and another, m. m. lion, very good, and a rare m. Mm. 3 Half Sovereign, with larger bust and more ornamented dress, m. m. tun, fine 1 A similar Piece, same m. m. fine; and another, only good state, m. m. woolpack 2 Half Sovereign, same type, m. m. 2 (1602), very fine, and an unpublished m.m. [PI. IV] 1 Pattern Half Sovereign of very fine work, m.m. tun, type similar to the current issue, but the bust is entirely within the inner circle; on the reverse, the crown, which cuts the inner circle as usual, has the top arch depressed in centre, very fine and very rare [PI. IV] 1
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