Lovely Elizabeth Half Pound

CNG 94, Lot: 1961. Estimate $7500. Sold for $15000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TUDOR. Elizabeth I. 1558-1603. AV Half Pound (33mm, 5.51 g, 6h). Sixth issue. Tower mint; im: tun. Struck 1592-1595. ELIZAB’ • D’ • G’• ANG’ • FRA’ • ET • HIB’ • REGINA, crowned bust (B&C type 7B) left / SCVTVM : FIDEI : PROTEGET : EAM •, Crowned coat-of-arms; E R across fields. Brown & Comber G22; Schneider 809 (same dies); North 2009; SCBC 2535. EF, deep rich yellow tone, a couple insignificant marks in fields. Well struck on a round flan.

From the James Fox Collection.