271, Lot: 197. Estimate $2000. Sold for $4750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TUDOR. Elizabeth I. 1558-1603. AV Half Angel (20mm, 2.37 g, 9h). Second issues. London mint; im: eglantine. Struck 1574-1578. ELIZABETH : D’ · G’ · ANG’ · FR’ · ET HI’ · REGINA, St. George standing facing, head right, wearing nimbus crown and spearing dragon to lower right with cruciform spear / A · DNO : FACTVM : EST · ISTVD ET EST : MIRA’ ·, ship bearing coat-of-arms; above, cross between E and eglantine. Brown & Comber D7; Schneider 771; North 1992/1; SCBC 2517. Good VF, rare thus.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex John Jordan Collection (Triton II, 1 December 1998), lot 1309.