Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 2281. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $6200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TUDOR. Elizabeth I. 1558-1603. AV Half Angel (2.51 g, 1h). Second issue. London mint; mm: Greek cross, 1578-1580. ELIZABETH : D : G : ANG : FR . ET : HI : REGINA, Archangel Michael slaying the dragon / A : DNO : FACTVM : EST ISTVD : ET : EST : MIRA, ship bearing shield and cross, E and rose flanking cross. Brown & Comber D8; Schneider 772 (same dies); North 1992/1; SCBC 2526. Near EF, small striking crack. Exceptionally well struck on a well rounded flan. ($5000)

From the Andrew Wayne Collection. Ex Samuel King Collection (Spink 173, 5 May 2005), lot 48; Spink 67 (16 November 1988), lot 47; R.C. Lockett Collection (Glendining, 11 October 1956), lot 1972; T.B. Clarke Thornhill Collection (Glendining, 24 May 1937), lot 113.