Ex Carlyon-Britton Collection

249, Lot: 460. Estimate $200. Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

YORK. Edward IV. First reign, 1461-1470. AR Groat (26mm, 2.98 g, 12h). Light coinage, type VIIb. York mint; mm: lis. Struck 1467-1470. Crowned facing bust, with Є on breast and quatrefoils to left and right of neck; all within tressure of arches, with trefoils in spandrels / Long cross pattée, with three pellets in each quarter. Blunt & Whitton type VIIb; North 1583; SCBC 2012. VF, toned.

Ex Raymond Carlyon-Britton Collection (Seaby Coin and Medal Bulletin [July 1949]), no. 8349. Ticket by Cuthbert Whitton. For ticket, see R. Eaglen, et al. “Coin Tickets in the British Hammered Series, BNJ 71 (2001), (C75-1).