Ex Carlyon-Britton Collection

Triton XIV, Lot: 1648. Estimate $2500. Sold for $3300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

YORK (Restored). Richard III. 1483-1485. AR Groat (25mm, 2.98 g, 8h). Type 1. Tower mint; im: halved sun and rose 1. Struck 27 June - 20 July 1483. RICΛRD’ DI’ GRΛ’ RЄX’ ΛnGL (Z retrograde) FRΛnC (saltire stops), crowned facing bust in tressure of arches; fleurs on cusps (except over crown); L1 / POSVI DЄVm Λ DIVTOR Є mЄVm/CIVI TAS LOn DOn, long cross pattée; three pellets in quarters; P of POSVI over C; L1, M1. Winstanley 1; North 1679; SCBC 2154. Good VF, toned. Excellent portrait.

Ex Raymond Carlyon Carlyon-Britton Collection (Seaby Coin and Medal Bulletin [March 1959]), no. 4469 (includes his ticket and Seaby envelope). For Carlyon-Britton ticket, see R. Eaglen, et al. “Coin Tickets in the British Hammered Series, BNJ 71 (2001), (C17).