283, Lot: 494. Estimate $200. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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LANCASTER. Henry VI. First reign, 1422-1461. AR Groat (27mm, 3.73 g, 7h). Pinecone-Mascle issue. Calais mint; im: cross IIIb/V. Struck circa 1430-1434. ҺЄnIC · DI · GRΛ · RЄX ◊ ΛnGL’ × Z × FRΛnC’ (pinecone stops; Z retrograde), crowned facing bust within double polylobe / POSVI · DЄVm : Λ DIVTOR Є’ × mЄVm/VIL ◊ LA : CΛLI SIЄ · (pinecone and double saltire stops), long cross pattée, with trefoil in each quarter. Whitton,
Heavy 29; cf. Stewartby p. 325, IIab/IIIb (for obv./rev.); North 1461; SCBC 1875. VF, attractive cabinet tone, minor roughness and edge raggedness.
Ex Frank Brady Collection; Spink Numismatic Circular CI.3 (April 1993), no. 1702.