x The Jean-Marie Vanmeerbeeck Collection of Numismatic Portraits from Medieval Flanders and Tudor England | Henry VIII, with Katharine of Aragon (1509-1547), Second Coinage, Crown of the Double-Rose, 1526-1533, Tower, (m.m.) hENRIC ?x VIII ?: RVTILANS : ROSA : SINE : SPIA , lombardic lettering, crowned double rose, crowned h-K beside, rev. (m.m.) DEI x G : R : AGLIE x Z : FRANC : DNS hIBERNIE, Roman lettering, crowned shield, fields plain, 3.68g [56.6grns], 4h, m.m. rose (Lockett 3220 same reverse die; Schneider I, 587ff; North 1788; Spink 2273), some friction on crown, otherwise an intriguing Lombardic / Roman lettering mule, slightly bright but residually lustrous with occasional tone, magnificently uniform on a neat round flan, an exceptional specimen for issue, extremely fine and very seldom encountered in this condition Provenance DAmelia, Spink 91, 1 May 1992, lot 17 - an excellent full round specimen, extremely fine and rare thus - £1,000 Christies, 16 March 1965, lot 22























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