Exceptional Heavy Edward IV Groat

CNG 96, Lot: 1422. Estimate $1000. Sold for $5300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

YORK. Edward IV. First reign, 1461-1470. AR Groat (27mm, 3.82 g, 2h). Heavy coinage, group II. London mint; im: rose. Struck 1464. (rose) (annulet) ЄDWΛRD’+ DI + GRΛ’ + RЄX + ΛnGL’ + Z + FRΛnC, crowned facing bust, with crescent on breast and quatrefoils flanking; all within double polylobe / (rose) POSVI (double +) DЄVm (double +) Λ DIVTOR Є’+ mЄVm//CIVI TΛS LOn DOn, long cross pattée, with trefoil in each quarter. Blunt & Whitton Type II(vi)/(vi); North 1531; SCBC 1972. EF, attractively toned. Exceptional strike.

Ex Davisson’s 20 (12 February 2004), lot 112.