CNG 97, Lot: 1015. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TUDOR. Henry VIII. 1509-1547. AV Halfcrown (20mm, 1.51 g, 11h). Third coinage. London mint; im: pellet-in-annulet. Struck 1544-1547. ҺЄnRIC’ 8 · D’ · G’ · ΛGL’ · FR’ · Z · ҺIB’ · RЄX (trefoil stops), crowned coat-of-arms; Һ R across field / RVTILΛnS : ROSΛ : SInЄ : SPIn, crowned rose; Һ R across field; annulet on inner circle beneath 18th letter. Cf. Whitton 2; Schneider 637; Stewartby - Tower ii, p. 522; Stewartby p. 471; North 1837; SCBC 2311. Good VF. A full and well struck example of this difficult issue.

From the Ross Blakely Collection. Ex CNG Inventory 871728 (June 2010); Dix, Noonan, and Webb 85 (17 March 2010), lot 336. Found in rural Bedfordshire, late 2009.