CNG 99, Lot: 1235. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

YORK (Restored). Richard III. 1483-1485. AR Groat (25mm, 3.16 g, 10h). Type 2b. London (Tower) mint; im: boar’s head 2. (boar’s head) RICΛRD’ · DI’ · GRΛ’ · RЄX ΛnGL’ · Z FRΛnC (saltire stops), crowned facing bust within tressure of arches / (boar’s head) POSVI DЄVm : Λ DIVTOR Є’· mЄVm/CIVI TAS LOn DOn (saltire and double saltire stops), long cross; trefoil in quarters. Winstanley 8; Stewartby p. 434, IIB; North 1679; SCBC 2156. VF, toned, area of flat stirke.

From the collection of a Southern Pathologist. Ex Classical Numismatic Review 18.1 (1st Quarter 1993), no. 574.