This week’s fresh listings (scroll
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Tuesday and will contain all the latest Coin,
Medal & Token listings for that particular week.
Additions to www.HistoryInCoins.com
for week commencing
Previous Weeks’ Listings (scroll down this page for “This Week’s Listings”):
WAu-7663:
Edward IV
Medieval Hammered Gold Ryal or Rose-Noble.
First reign, light coinage, 1464-70. The excessively rare Coventry mint – this
mint was only operational for x72 days right at the start of the Light Coinage,
which would account for the fact that I have never seen another in the flesh,
ever, and have only seen one other for sale – see here. Spink 1955. Such a rare coin! P.O.A. RESERVED
WAu-7664:
1602 Scottish
James VI Hammered Gold Sword & Sceptre Piece. Eighth coinage. Circulated at 120
shillings. Spink
5460. Often seen creased or even
pierced & plugged – this coin is completely problem-free and in lovely
grade – probably the best I’ve ever offered.
£3,585 RESERVED
WAu-7665:
Scottish James
VI Hammered Gold Unit or Sceptre Piece.
Tenth coinage, 1609-25. Circulated at £12 in
WTH-7655:
James 1st Tudor Hammered
Silver Shilling – High Grade. Third coinage,
initial mark Trefoil, sixth bust, Spink 2668.
High grade – the best I’ve ever handled – with attractive steel grey
toning. If this were to be slabbed and put into a decent auction, it would likely
fetch much more than the listing price here.
Choice.
£1,385
WSC-7650:
Alexander II (2nd)
Medieval Scottish Hammered Silver Penny.
Phase C, circa
1230-34: coinage in the name of Alexander’s father, William the Lion: +: WILELMVS
REX although this is the rare variety where the obverse legend is retrograde. For some
reason, possibly because Alexander II was very busy with insurrection,
invasions and intrigue throughout his reign, coinage retained William’s name
for some twenty years, although the portraits were Alexander II. Joint moneyers
working out of Roxburgh:
PERIS ADAM DE ROCI. 1.16g, 3h. Ashmolean 82, Burns
66c, Spink 5034. Near
VF for this particular issue. Rare coin. £745
WMH-7647:
An exciting
opportunity to own a set of EIGHT Medieval Henry III Silver from the very
famous BRUSSELS’ HOARD!! Voided
long cross coinage, 1247-72. Comprising different mints in a presentation box with paperwork. In July 1908, a group of workmen in
This set
was issued by the London Mint Office. It
comprises x8 Henry III Medieval hammered silver voided long cross pennies, all
from the famous 1908 Brussell’s Hoard, all from
different mints:
Continental imitation
The
WJC-7639:
1648 Charles 1st
Civil War Pontefract Besieged Silver Shilling. Cut from silver plate literally inside
Pontefract castle whilst it was under attack by Cromwell’s forces, June 1649 –
March 1649. Issued to pay the garrison
defending the castle, it was made by cutting any available silver bullion and
plate. The inscription 'DVM SPIRO SPERO' translates as “Whilst I breathe, I
hope”. Struck the year
prior to the execution of Charles 1st.
The rarer of the two varieties with no mark of value –
Spink 3148. Ex
Fred Rist, ex DNW, ex M.H. Coins. Particularly high grade – these suffered
quickly from wear, often being kept as touch-pieces by local and bereft
supporters during the dark days of the Commonwealth that followed. 5.59 grams, 43mm tip to tip. There is a slight Z bend to the coin which
has resulted in minor wear to those corresponding high points. Equally as good grade as the Spink plate
coin, bar the contemporary piercing, but interestingly from a different obverse
die – this coin has obverse pellet stops with no stop after SPERO. The reverse die is the same. Find another for sale in such high
grade! £3,995
WJC-7638:
Charles 1st
Civil War Provincial Mint Half Crown.
EBOR below king on rearing horse –
This Week’s Listings:
WMH-7666:
Henry 1st
Hammered Silver Norman PAXS Penny. A desirable early issue, being B.M.C.iii
– circa 1103 only. +IIHGMII[ND O[N C]AN – Agmundr of £1,875
WMH-7667:
Henry II Tealby Hammered Silver Medieval Penny. Class E, circa 1170-74, Spink 1341. Willem of £255
WMH-7668:
Rare Class 1A
Henry II Hammered Silver Medieval Penny.
A class 1a1/1a2 mule – square E and C in king’s name. This is the only Plantagenet short
cross coin to have a square E and C and the first example I have ever
owned. RANDVL ON LVN. £385
WMH-7669:
Richard 1st
Hammered Silver Medieval Penny. The Lionheart. Class 4b, Spink 1348C. Very clear legends: +ALEIN ON CAR – rarer £385
WTH-7670:
1580 over 1579
Elizabeth 1st Hammered Silver Tudor Sixpence. Fifth coinage, bust 5A, initial mark Latin Cross, Spink 2572.
Overdates, with altered initial marks, are found because too many dies
were sunk in a year where less coinage was struck that was originally expected,
often down to availability of bullion.
These old dies were effectively recycled up to three years later. It is interesting to note that although
changing the initial mark was obligatory, in line with the various pyx inspections, the date was not required to be
changed. They are actually quite rare in
all coinages, but specifically for the fifth coinage, it only really happened
three times. When you think that 79 to
be changed to 80 would have been twice the work, you begin to wonder why they
bothered changing the date at all. The
overdate on this coin is very clear.
1580 as a date represents a frequency of 3.7% for the 2,716 recorded
single finds of Elizabeth 1st coins and 4.1% for all 5,588 recorded Elizabeth
1st hoard coins. £225
WTH-7671:
1591 over 1590 Elizabeth
1st Hammered Silver Tudor Sixpence. Sixth coinage, bust 6C, initial mark Hand, Spink 2578B. Overdates, with altered initial marks, are
found because too many dies were sunk in a year where less coinage was struck
that was originally expected, often down to availability of bullion. These old dies were effectively recycled up
to three years later. It is interesting
to note that although changing the initial mark was obligatory, in line with
the various pyx inspections, the date was not
required to be changed. 1590 changed to
1591 is a strange one in that most of the 1590 sixpences issued were made from
1589 recycled dies and the rest were from straight 1590 dies. They clearly didn’t issue many straight 1590
coins (it is a rarer year) because the dies were barely used – they took the
1591 dies, seeing they were still fresh, and altered them to produce 1591
coinage. 1591 as a date represents a
frequency of 1.2% for the 2,716 recorded single finds of Elizabeth 1st coins
and 1.2% for all 5,588 recorded Elizabeth 1st hoard coins. 1591 is the fifteenth rarest of all forty two
dates. £255