YORK. Edward IV. First reign, 1461-1470. AV Ryal (34mm, 7.62 g, 8h). Light coinage, type VII. York mint; im: –/lis. Struck 1461-1464. VF.

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YORK. Edward IV. First reign, 1461-1470. AV Ryal (34mm, 7.62 g, 8h). Light coinage, type VII. York mint; im: –/lis. Struck 1461-1464. ЄD WΛRD’· DI · GRΛ’· RЄX · ΛnGL’· (retrograde Z) · FRΛnC’· · DNS’ IB’· · (trefoil and quatrefoil stops), Edward standing facing in ship, holding sword and shield; Є on banner at stern, rose on hull, small Є in waves / (lis) IhC’· ΛVT’· TRΛnSIЄnS : PER mЄDIVm : ILLORVm : IBΛT · (trefoil and double trefoil stops), radiant sun, with rose in center, over floreate cross with lis at ends; in each quarter, crown above lion passant left; all within tressure of eight arches, with trefoils in spandrels. Blunt & Whitton type VII; Schneider (Additions) 423B var. (legend stops); North 1553; SCBC 1957. Flan crack, edge marks. VF.

From the Evergreen Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 42 (29 March 1997), lot 1464.

The restoration of Edward IV to the English throne was one episode in the thirty-year dynastic conflict known to history as the “Wars of the Roses” (1455-1485). So-named because of the roses employed by the competing houses – a red one for the Lancastrians and a white one for the Yorkists – the war was the result of the conflict that occurred between the sons of Edward III and their respective descendants in competition for the English throne. Beginning with the deposition in 1399 of Richard II by Henry Bolingbroke (subsequently Henry IV), the Lancastrian branch became the ruling family. The untimely death of Henry’s successor, Henry V in 1422, left the throne to the infant Henry VI. Until 1437, when he achieved his majority, the country was ruled by regents; after this, Henry’s own inability to rule effectively, as well as his personal insanity, created a volatile political instability that allowed for the rise of the Yorkists. In 1461, Henry VI was deposed by Edward, Duke of York, who became Edward IV. Edward, through the support of his cousin, Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick (“The Kingmaker”) consolidated his position as king, but the two fell out over Edward’s marriage to Elizabeth Woodville, the widow of a Lancastrian sympathizer. Warwick rebelled, capturing Edward, but subsequently being compelled by the nobles to release him. In 1470, Warwick again rebelled, restoring Henry VI (who had been in the Tower since 1465) again briefly to the throne. Following the decisive Battle of Tewkesbury on 4 May 1471, Edward IV was restored as king and Henry VI, deposed for the final time, was re-imprisoned in the Tower, where he died a little over two weeks later. Edward and the House of York now ruled unopposed, since direct Lancastrian opposition had been checked. Only Henry Tudor, the great-great grandson of John of Gaunt, remained – an exile in France.

The final winners of all Triton XXIX lots will be determined at the live public sale that will be held on 13-14 January 2026.

Triton XXIX – Session Four – Lot 920-1141 will be held Wednesday afternoon, 14 January 2026 beginning at 2:00 PM ET.

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