318, Lot: 1076. Estimate $300. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

YORK. Edward IV. First reign, 1461-1470. AR Halfgroat (19mm, 1.63 g, 8h). Light coinage, type VIII. Bristol mint; im: crown/sun. Struck 1467-1468. ЄDWΛRD’ DI GRΛ RЄX ΛnGL’ Z FR (Z retrograde), crowned facing bust within tressure of arches; quatrefoil to left and right of neck / POSVI DЄVm Λ DIVTOR Є’ mЄVm/VIL’ LΛ B RIS TOL, long cross pattée with trefoil in each quarter. Blunt & Whitton type VIII; North 1585; SCBC 2021; MHG dies 8/4 (this coin, illustrated). VF, darkly toned on a slightly compact flan. Rare.

Ex Greenhalgh Collection.