Henry VII (1485-1509), Angel, type I, mm. sun and rose, henric over ricard on obv, h over r on rev., 5.13g/5h (SCBI Ashmolean –; SCBI Schneider 501; N 1694; S 2180). Lightly creased, otherwise very fine or better, very rare £2,000-3,000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of English Hammered Coins, the Property of a Cambridge Scholar.

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Provenance: SCMB July 1968 (G 1064); SNC October 1990 (5885); Noble Numismatics Pty Auction 84 (Sydney), 28-30 March 2007, lot 620.

Pictured on the front cover of their July 1968 Bulletin, Seaby’s point out that the obverse of this coin is a die-duplicate of the Lockett specimen (lot 1670) although the reverse is from a different altered die. This latter coin is now the Schneider specimen