Choice Elizabeth I Half Angel
Ex Lockett Collection

CNG 106, Lot: 1126. Estimate $5000. Sold for $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TUDOR. Elizabeth I. 1558-1603. AV Half Angel (20.5mm, 2.60 g, 8h). First to Fourth issues. Tower (London) mint; im: eglantine. Struck 1574-1578. ELIZABETH : D : G : ANG’ · FR’ · ET HI’ · REGINA (crescent stops), St. George standing facing, head right, wearing nimbus crown and spearing dragon to lower right with cruciform spear / A : DNO : FACTVM : EST · ISTVD · ET · EST : MIRA (crescent stops), ship bearing shield and cross, E and rose flanking cross. Schneider 771 var. (legends); North 1992/1; SCBC 2517. Choice EF. Rare.

Ex Sotheby’s (19 April 1993), lot 35; Richard Cyrill Lockett Collection (English Part II, Glendining, 11 October 1956), lot 1971.