| Numismatica Ars Classica > Auction 145 with CNG & NGSA | Auction date: 8 May 2024 |
| Lot number: 1214 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction - Bid on this lot  | Show similar lots on CoinArchives Find similar lots in upcoming auctions on  |
| Lot description: The Geoffrey Cope Collection of British Coins. Elizabeth I. 1558-1603. Pattern AR Halfpenny (15mm, 1.54 g, 6h). Struck circa 1576. THE · PLEDGE · OF, crowned Elizabeth monogram / · A · HALFPENNY ·, crowned rose. Thomas Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, Nummi anglici et scotici cum aliquot numismatibus recentioribus, collegit Thomas Pembrochiae et Montis Gomerici comes (London, 1746), pl. 4, 8 (this coin); North 2053; Peck 2. Toned. Near EF. Extremely rare. With an extraordinary pedigree: this coin plated in 1746. Ex Spink 208 (22 June 2011) 705; Spink 1 (11 October 1978) lot 192; H.A. Parsons (Glendining's, 11 May 1953), lot 636; T.B. Clarke-Thornhill (Part I, Glendining, 24 May 1937) lot 445; C. A. Watters (Glendining, 21 May 1917), lot 341; J.G. Murdoch (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 31 March 1903), lot 669; H. Montagu (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 15 July 1897) lot 5; S. Addington Collection; R.M. Murchison (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 27 June 1864) lot 193; Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke (S. Leigh Sotheby, 31 July 1848) lot 127. Estimate: 2500 CHF |  |
