CNG 106, Lot: 1114. Estimate $750. Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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PLANTAGENET. Edward III. 1327-1377. AR Halfgroat (22mm, 2.17 g, 8h). Transitional Treaty Period (Treaty Series A). London (Tower) mint; im: cross pattée (cross 3). Struck 1361. + ЄDWΛRD’ × RЄX × ΛnGLIЄ × DnS’ × ҺIB’, crowned facing bust within double polylobe, annulets on arches flanking crown / + POS VI × DЄV × ΛDIVT ORЄm/ CIVI TΛS LOn DOn, long cross pattée; three pellets in quarters. MHG 1/1; Lawrence 1–2; Stewartby p. 262, pl. 14, 275 (this coin); North 1226; SCBC 1611. VF, toned. Very rare.
Ex Lord Stewartby Collection, purchased from E. J. Harris, November 2005; R. C. Carlyon-Britton Collection (sold privately); H. W. Morrieson Collection (Sotheby & Co., 20 November 1933), lot 154; W. H. D. Longstaffe Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 20 January 1903), lot 299.