Heavy Coinage

Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 2170. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $755. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

YORK. Edward IV. First reign, 1461-1470. AR Groat (3.90 g, 1h). Type III, heavy coinage. London mint; mm: rose. Struck 1461-1464. ЄDWΛRD’ DI GRΛ RЄX ΛnGL Z FRΛnC, crowned facing bust within tressure of arches; quatrefoils flanking neck, fleurs on cusps, trefoil on breast, saltire stops / POSVI DЄVm ΛDIVTORЄ mЄVm, CIVI TAS (eye): LOn DOn:, long cross pattée; trefoils in quarters, saltire stops. Blunt & Whitton type IIIe; North 1532; SCBC 1974. VF, toned.

From the Ross Schraeder Collection.