Triton XIX, Lot: 956. Estimate $750. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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YORK. Edward IV. First reign, 1461-1470. AR Groat (27mm, 3.10 g, 8h). Light coinage, type Xa. London mint; im: cross fitchée/sun. Struck 1469-1470. + ЄDWΛRD’ DI’ GRΛ’ RЄX + ΛnGL’x Z FRΛnC (double trefoil), crowned facing bust; trefoil to left and right of neck; all within tressure of arches; trefoils at cusps / (sun) POSVI DЄVm (trefoil) ΛDIVTORЄ’ mЄVm/CIVI TΛS LON DON, long cross pattée, with trefoil in each quarter. Blunt & Whitton type Xa, var. 3a; North 1577; SCBC 2003. Near EF, toned and well struck on a broad flan.
Ex Nomos FPL (Winter-Spring 2012), no. 114; Spink 207 (23 March 2011), lot 104.