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Sadly, my main camera has broken (turns out they don't like being dropped) and so for the time being, until I can source a suitable replacement, I'm using the old camera.

It's definitely not the best and so until I secure that replacement, I'm including camera phone images alongside main images where appropriate.

WMH-9452: High Grade and Rare Edward III Hammered Silver Long Cross Penny. Treaty period, 1361-69, initial mark Cross Potent, London mint. Obv: +EDWARD AnGL R DnS hB with double annulet stops throughout and no pellet preceding EDWARD. This is the very rare hB for hYB (hIB also recorded) which L.A. Lawrence, in his research publication "The Coinage of Edward III from 1351, part IV", was unaware of. Lately re-catalogued as obv. DIG 6 (D.I.Greenhalgh, Medieval Pennies, Part 1, Edward III - Richard II). The chronology would appear to put this type at the very end of the London Treaty period pennies, even post the S.R. pellet-preceding-EDWARD issues. As such, there is technically no current S.R. reference for this coin as it falls after S.R.1625 ("pellet-preceding-EDWARD"), meaning the London Treaty pennies went from no pellet (three DIG types) to pellet (two DIG types) and then back to no pellet (this sole DIG type). In years to come this should be reclassified as S.R.1625a. Rev: CIVI TAS LOn DOn with the clear annulet after DOn. Lawrence recognised two "annulet after DON" types, differentiated by the use of two different dies, f3 and f4. This is reverse die f3 (broken C, thick, chunky I of CIVI), lately re-catalogued as obv. DIG D. The coin is DIG 6/D. A very rare coin, albeit somewhat technical, and in lovely grade. £395

WTH-9453: Rare 1560 Elizabeth 1st AE Medal - REFORM OF COINAGE. Bust of Elizabeth, three-quarters left, crowned, wearing ruff and rich dress. No legend. The reverse depicts Justice, seated. Again, no legend. In 1545, Henry VIII had so debased the coin that it contained only 4oz of silver to 8oz alloy. Edward VI partially resolved this dire situation with the issue in 1551 of his fine silver coinage but much of the old king's coinage, and some debased early issues of Edward VI, remained in circulation. A quantity of base coinage was in circulation when Elizabeth came to the throne in 1558. Initially, in 1560, Elizabeth had the Edward base coinage counterstamped, thereby reducing the face value (eg an Edward VI debased groat was de-valued to three-halfpence). Earlier Henry VIII coinage still in circulation was also de-valued but not counterstamped. This was a far from satisfactory situation and so in 1560, all that ended with all old coin being recalled for exchange as "not currency" on 27th September, 1560 and a new 0.925 standard silver issue introduced on 8th November, 1560. This medal, and one other similar, was a direct commemoration of that re-coinage. M.I (i) 100/23 (listed Rare), Eimer 41 (listed at £650 / £1,100 in the now 27 year old price guide. A rare offering and surely a medal to sit alongside any collection of Tudor coinage, especially one referencing the 1560 re-coinage through the earlier counterstamped issues. £865

WJC-9454: High Grade Charles 1st Hammered Silver Half Crown. Tower mint under the king, initial mark Triangle, 1639-40. Group III, third horseman, oval garnished shield, type 3a2 with rough ground under the horse, S.R.2776, North 352. Weight - an astonishing 15.28 grams! The expectation was that every coin leaving the mint should be 15g or just under. Anything over 15g was simply just giving money away and was clearly inexcusable. Brooker gives us the weights of his collection and looking through them, you'll see that the vast majority of weights of halfcrowns are just under 15g and some a good way under. Very, very few halfcrowns reach this extraordinarily heavy weight. Consider the clippers: these people weren't idiots - they knew to only shave off tiny amounts so as to not "kill" the coin (but mainly to not draw attention to themselves as this was a very serious crime at the time with most severe penalties) but on a lot of coins, meaning those 15g coins would now be low 14g coins. This coin has never been anywhere near a clipper, a rarity in itself. Consider also wear through circulation. A prominent collector friend of mine uses weight as a guide to grade, particularly on Charles 1st coinage. By weight alone, this is a coin with no circulation to its name. Going back to Brooker, in his comprehensive collection, there were just two 3a2 examples with the horse on rough ground and one of those was initial mark Star (obverse die star over triangle; reverse star). So as wide searching and thorough as Brooker was in his quest for all Charles 1st coinage, not to mention his deep pockets, he could only source one of these rarer rough ground 3a2 coins. The icing on the cake with this notable coin is the lack of stops either side of the initial mark. Brooker's example has stops, and all the chronologically similar halfcrowns also have stops. Old tickets here, including yet another failed attempt at photographing this coin. A remarkable coin (grade, weight, unrecorded obverse die) which I have once again failed miserably to do any kind of justice to in my feeble attempt at photography. £945

Provenance:

ex Alan Morris collection, sold to ...

ex Brian Dawson collection

ex Lloyd Bennett (his old ticket)

ex old Tim Owen ticket?

WI-9455: High Grade, Rare Type 1691 Irish Civil War Limerick Besieged Halfpenny. Small, "virgin" flan (ie not overstruck on a gun Money shilling as most were) issue with the all-important and extremely rare corrected N in HYBERNIA - all previous iterations of this issue witnessed the die sinker's reversed N on the reverse. S.R.6596. During the Civil War, after the Battle of the Boyne, and even after James had once again fled for France, Limerick continued to hold out for James II - ultimately a forlorn act - well into 1691, with this "virgin flan, corrected N" issue being the very last to leave the mint before it was permanently shut down by William of Orange, following the signing of the Treaty of Limerick on October 1691. Coins of Scotland, Ireland and the Islands 2026 do not give a plate coin for this much rarer issue but this coin is comparable in grade with the commoner S.R.6595, that being the very best example they could lay their hands upon with the vast collector base that they have at their fingertips. Old tickets here. Graded only good fine by the cataloguer on the old auction slip, which is quite misleading (and in my opinion, incorrectly graded anyway) when you consider that this surely has to be one of the very best grade extant examples known. Rarest type. Find better! £595

Provenance:

ex DNW, Sept. 2017, purchased by ...

ex Charles Edward Noble - a highly regarded collection (his old ticket)

ex Spink

WSC-9456: 1594 James VI Scottish Twelve Pence - Portrait Issue. Seventh coinage, dated 1594 which is much the rarest date of the meagre three year issue. The smallest silver denomination with a portrait for James VI - and what a portrait! S.R.5496. This seventh coinage, ordered by Act of Parliament on 17th January1594, came with something rather unusual - in the words of the Act itself: ...the whole of the gold, silver and alloyed money, except the penneyis, twa penneyis and lait plakkis (ie the hardheads and half hardheads with I.R. and the saltire placks) be called in and coined anew (ie melted down). Further, none of the money previously current was to be received after the first day of May 1594 and if it was, a penalty of one hundred pounds would be initiated with the immediate confiscation of the money tendered. Harsh, to say the least, but perhaps an insight into just why and how Scottish coinage is so rare today. There is actually a 1593 twelve-penny piece in the Cochran-Patrick collection, which would be a trial piece. As an indication as to just how rare this issue is, and specifically this date, the Ashmolean has but a single example of this denomination with an indeterminate date, the Hunterian in Glasgow only has a 1595 example and the National Museum in Edinburgh has a single example from all three dates with this coin being the same weight as the National Museum coin. Quite a little coin! £650

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