CNG 109, Lot: 896. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

YORK. Edward IV. First reign, 1461-1470. AV Ryal – Rose Noble (35mm, 7.52 g, 5h). Light Coinage. London mint; im: –/crown. Struck 1466-1468. ЄD WΛRD’ · DI GRΛ’ RЄX · ΛnGL’ · Z · FRΛnC · · DnS I’ B’· (single trefoil stops), Edward standing facing in ship with bowsprit, holding sword and shield; large rose on hull and banner with large Є in stern; no pellet by shield / IhC’· ΛVT’· TRΛnSIЄnS · PЄR · mЄDIVm : ILLORVm IBΛT, radiant sun, with rose in center, over cross with lis at ends; crowned lion passant in each quarter; all within polylobe with trefoil on cusps and in each spandrel. Blunt & Whitton type VIII(A); Schneider –; North 1549; SCBC 1951. Near EF, toned.

From the Dr. William E. Triest Collection.