Great Britain Silver & Bronze
Lot 979 Great Britain Silver & Bronze
Estimate $2,500
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $1,600
HENRY VIII (1509-1547), third coinage, posthumous groat, Tower mint, mm. lis, issued 1547-1548, 4th bust, (2.6 grams), with Roman lettering and lozenge stops, pellets in annulets in forks of cross on the reverse, (S.2403, N.1871, Whitton BNJ XXXVI, Part III, Plate XVIII, 9 from the same dies). A superb full round specimen with some original mint bloom, extremely fine, one of the finest if not finest known example of this base metal posthumous coinage.
Ex. Norweb Collection, Spink sale 59 (lot 1377) and Patrick Finn, May 1996, with his envelope and description.
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