Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 1259. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

YORK. Edward IV. First reign, 1461-1470. AV Ryal ­ Rose Noble (7.59 g, 12h). Light coinage, Type VIII, 1467-1468. London mint, mm: -/crown. Edward standing facing, holding sword and shield, in ship, E on banner at stern, rose on hull, quatrefoil of four pellets after FRAnC, pellet to lower left of shield / Rose over sun with fleurs, crowns, and lions; small trefoils in spandrels; quatrefoil of four pellets after ILLORVM, first S missing in TRAnSIEnS. Blunt & Whitton p. 172, Type VIII(A), 1; Schneider -; North 1549; SCBC 1951. VF, light earthen encrustation, some flatness. ($1000)

From the John F. Sullivan Collection.