High Relief Sovereign of Henry VIII

312, Lot: 24. Estimate $60000. Sold for $100000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TUDOR. Henry VIII. 1509-1547. AV Sovereign (40mm, 15.44 g, 11h). Second coinage. Tower mint; im: lis. Struck 1538-1541. x (lis) hЄnRICVS : DЄI : GRΛCIA : RЄX x ΛnGLIЄ : ЄT : FRΛnC’ x DnS’ : hIB’ x (double and single saltire stops), Henry enthroned facing, holding scepter in left hand, globus cruciger in right; portcullis below / (lis) IhЄSVS : ΛVTЄM : TRΛnSIЄnS : PЄR : MЄDIVM : ILLORVM : IBΛT : (double saltire stops), royal shield within Tudor rose. Whitton 4 (dies O1d/R4); Schneider 571 var. (obv. stops; same rev. die); North 1782; SCBC 2267. EF. Exceptional detail. Rare.

From the Clearwater Collection. Ex Spink 206 (1 December 2010), lot 897; privately purchased from Spink, November 1995.