| Spink > Auction 24004 | Auction date: 4 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 68 Price realized: 9,500 GBP (Approx. 11,939 USD / 11,090 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | Show similar lots on CoinArchives Find similar lots in upcoming auctions on  |
| Lot description: Edward III (1327-1377), Fourth Coinage, Treaty Period, Noble, 1363-1369, Tower, x ED | WARD : DEI : GRA : REX : ANGL : DNS : hYB • Z • AQ T, saltire stops, saltire before EDWARD, King standing in ship, holding sword and shield, rev. (i.m.) IhC : AVTEM : TRANSIENS : PER : MEDIV : ILLORVM IBAT, double saltire stops, floriate cross, crowned leopards in angles, E at centre, i.m. cross potent, 7.704g [118.89grns], 7h (G C Brooke, NumChron [1911], nos. 82-94 [13 Listed, 10 Obv/13 Rev Dies]; LAL Group A; Doubleday 214, 216; Schneider I, 75-76; North 1231; Spink 1502), the obverse a trace off-struck, otherwise on a neat round flan, splendidly uniform and balanced for strike, honey-golden hues interspersed with natural lustre, near extremely fine, scarce in so presentable a state and with a distinguished pedigree, one of only thirteen examples of the type recovered from the hoard. Provenance, Spink, by private treaty, 12 June 1970 ['transferred from Approval 6788, 11 March 1970'], SNC, April 1970, no. 4325 - "extremely fine" - £175.0.0, "Gold Coins from the East Raynham Find, Sold by Order of His Majesty's Treasury", Sotheby's, (1) 27 November 1911 and (2) 31 January 1912; Treaty Period Nobles, with saltire before Edward = First Portion, lots 221-223; and Second Portion, lots 145, 150-152, East Raynham (Norfolk) Hoard, January 1910, , , George Cyril Brooke of the British Museum documented this find in the annals of the Numismatic Chronicle for 1911 (pp. 291-330). 200 Gold Nobles were discovered by Henry John Gayford (or Gifford [?]), land agent and sheep farmer whilst constructing a drain in the village four miles south-west of Fakenham. Brooke noted 119 obverse dies and 179 reverse dies with only 12 coins sharing dies, despite 165 examples emanating from the London Mint. Estimate: £8000 - £12000 |  |
