394, Lot: 639. Estimate $150. Sold for $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LANCASTER. Henry VI. First reign, 1422-1461. AR Groat (27mm, 3.62 g, 4h). Leaf-pellet issue. London (Tower) mint. Struck 1445-1454. Crowned facing bust within tressure of arches; trefoils at cusps; pellets flanking crown / Long cross pattée, with trefoil in each quarter; extra pellets in two quarters. Stewartby p. 326, VIIIa; North 1503; SCBC 1914. VF, toned, scratches.

Ex Lord Stewartby Collection; Seaby Coin and Medal Bulletin 498 (November 1959), no. 6973; Raymond Carlyon-Britton Collection.