Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 2532. Estimate $400.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LANCASTER. Henry VI. First reign, 1422-1461. AR Groat (3.80 g, 5h). Cross-pellet issue. London mint. Struck 1454-1460. (cross IIIb) hEnRIC’ DI’ GRA’ REX AnGLI FRAnC’, crowned facing bust in tressure of arches; pellets flanking crown, saltire on neck, no fleur on breast / Long cross; trefoils in quarters, pellet under CIVI and LOn. Whitton, Heavy 68/71a (obv./rev.); North 1517; SCBC 1935. VF, toned, slight die shift. Rare variety without mullet in legends.

From the Andrew Wayne Collection. Ex J. M. Ashby Collection (Spink 145, 12 July 2000), lot 2340 (misattributed for Whitton); Maj. H. J. Dakers Collection (Glendining, 8 October 1946), lot 76 (part of).

The saltire on the neck is obscured by the slight die shift, but visible under magnification.