255, Lot: 441. Estimate $150. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

YORK. Edward IV. First reign, 1461-1470. AR Groat (25mm, 3.01 g, 4h). Light coinage, type VII. London mint; im: crown. Struck 1466-1467. ЄDWΛRD’ × DI × GRΛ × RЄX × ΛnGL × Z × FRΛnC, crowned facing bust, with quatrefoil to left and right of neck; all within tressure of arches, with lis on each cusp / POSVI DЄVm × Λ DIVTOR Є’ × mЄVm/CIVI TΛS LOn DOn, long cross pattée; three pellets in each angle. Blunt & Whitton type VII.1; North 1568; SCBC 2000. Near VF, toned. Struck on a short flan.

From the C.W. Pearson Collection.