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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 1138. Estimate $750. 
Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009. 
Sold For $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TUDOR. Henry VII. 1485-1509. AR Groat (3.00 g, 11h). Facing bust issue, class IIIb. London mint; mm: escallop. Struck 1490-1504. hЄnRIC’ DI’ GRΛ’ RЄX ΛnGL’ Z FRΛnC’, crowned facing bust in tressure of arches; crown of two arches, both jeweled (crown 4); fleur type 1, rosette stops, lettering C1 / POSVI DЄVm ΛDIVTORЄ mЄVm/CIVITΛS LOnDOn, long cross; trefoils in quarters, rosette stops (single in outer, double in inner), lettering C1. P&W variety 2; SCBI 23 (Ashmolean), 245-6; North 1705b; SCBC 2198A. EF, toned. Exceptional portrait.


Ex G.W. de Wit Collection; Spink Numismatic Circular LXXX.7-8 (July-August 1972), no. 7424 (incorrectly cataloged as class IIIa).