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Triton XXI, Lot: 1433. Estimate $5000.
Sold for $7500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TUDOR. Elizabeth I. 1558-1603. AV Half Angel (21mm, 2.50 g, 10h). First issue. Tower (London) mint; im: lis. Struck 1558-1560. (lis) ELIZABETH · D’ · G’ · ANG’ · FRA’ · Z · HIB’, Archangel Michael slaying dragon to lower right, spear topped by cross-crosslet; beaded inner circle / (lis) · A : DNO’ · FACTVM · EST · ISTVD · Z · EST · M’, ship bearing shield and cross; Є and rose flanking cross; beaded inner circle. Brown & Comber D1; Schneider 735 (same dies); North 1980; SCBC 2517. VF, slight crease. Struck on a full round flan. Very rare.


From the Arthur M. Fitts III Collection. Ex Slaney Collection (Part II, Spink 229, 14 May 2015), lot 296 (hammer £5000); William Luard Raynes Collection (Glendining, 15 February 1950), lot 133; Thomas Bryan Clarke-Thornhill Collection (Sotheby & Co., 24 May 1937), lot 110.