Auction Catalogue

28 September 2006

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Important British and World Coins

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 962

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28 September 2006

Hammer Price:
£800

Mary (1542-1567), Half-Testoon, 1561, plain cross over crown, 3.88g/12h (B 1, fig. 901; S 5423). From a mount and has been made round, cleaned in the past and some associated rubbing on portrait, otherwise about fine, very rare (£800-1,000)

Provenance:
S.P. Fay ‘Dundee’ Collection, Bowers & Ruddy/Spink Auction (Los Angeles), 19 February 1976, lot 209