Triton XXI, Lot: 1436. Estimate $3000. Sold for $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TUDOR. Elizabeth I. 1558-1603. AV Quarter Angel (16mm, 1.28 g, 10h). Third & Fourth issues. Tower (London) mint; im: eglantine. Struck 1573-1578. (eglantine) ELIZABETH : D G ANG : FRANCIE (double crescent stops), Archangel Michael slaying dragon to lower right, spear topped by cross fleurée / (eglantine) ET : HIBERNIE : REGINA : FIDEI :, ship bearing shield and cross; Є and rose flanking cross. Brown & Comber E5; Schneider 775 (same dies); North 1993; SCBC 2518. Good VF, lightly toned. Struck on a broad flan.

From the Arthur M. Fitts III Collection. Ex CNG Inventory 755838 (May 2005); Spink 90 (16 March 1992), lot 33; Horace Hird Collection (Glendining, 9 December 1964), lot 29; William Luard Raynes Collection (Glendining, 15 February 1950), lot 139; Thomas Bryan Clarke-Thornhill Collection (Sotheby & Co., 24 May 1937), lot 115 (part of).