Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 1389. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $1550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TUDOR. Henry VIII. 1509-1547. AV Angel (5.00 g, 1h). First coinage. Tower mint; mm: portcullis with chains. Struck circa 1513-1526. hЄnRIC' [VII]I’ DI' GRΛ’ REX ΛGL' Z FR', Archangel Michael slaying the Dragon; single saltire stops, double at end / PЄR CRVCЄ' TVΛ' SAL[VΛ] nOS XPЄ' RЄDЄ', Ship bearing shield and cross, h and rose flanking cross; double saltire stops. Whitton iii, var. 1; Schneider 561 var. (stops); North 1760; SCBC 2265. VF, minor chip on edge, double struck in legends.

Ex Davissons 17 (26 June 2002), lot 24.

This coin has an interesting double strike that is visible only in the legend. It appears that after the coin was initially struck, the flan rotated slightly, and then it was struck again, but only slightly along one edge, so that only the legends were affected. The effect is most obvious on the reverse, where, after the initial TVΛ there is TVA SAL of the overtype, and then the undertype legend returns at nOS. An interesting mint error.