255, Lot: 440. Estimate $150. Sold for $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LANCASTER. Henry VI. First reign, 1422-1461. AR Groat (27mm, 3.80 g, 3h). Leaf-pellet issue, class C. London mint; im: cross IIIb/-. Struck 1445-1454. hЄnRIC × DI GRΛ × RЄX × ΛnGLI × Z × FRΛnCI, crowned facing bust, with leaf and lis on breast and pellet to left and right of crown; all within tressure of arches, with lis on each cusp / POSVI DЄVm Λ DIVTOR Є mЄVm/CIVI TΛS LOn DOn, long cross pattée; three pellets in each angle. Whitton, Heavy 49a var. (double saltire after RЄX); North 1505; SCBC 1917. VF. Rare.

From the C.W. Pearson Collection.