264, Lot: 603. Estimate $750. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

YORK. Edward IV. First reign, 1461-1470. AR Groat (27mm, 4.00 g, 6h). Heavy coinage, type III. London mint; im: rose. Struck 1461-1464. ЄDWΛR[D’ D]I’ · GRΛ’ : RЄX : ΛnGL’ [Z F]RΛnC : (saltire and double saltire stops), crowned facing bust, with trefoil on breast and quatrefoil to left and right of neck; all within tressure of arches, with lis in spandrels / POSVI DЄVm : Λ DIVTOR Є’ : mЄVm/CIVI TΛS (eye) LOn DOn : (double saltire stops), long cross pattée, with three pellets in each quarter. Blunt & Whitton type III.vii/d; North 1532; SCBC 1974. Near EF. Excellent portraiture.