The Lost Collection of Simon English Esq. | Edward III (1327-1377), Fourth Coinage, Pre-Treaty Period, Noble, 1356, Series F, London, E | DWARD x DEI x GRA REX x ANGL x 7 x FRANC x D hY | B, King standing in ship, holding sword and shield, ropes 3/2, quatrefoils 3/4, ornaments -11-11-, rev. (m.m.) IhC AVTEM TRANCIENS P MEDIVM ILORVM IBAT [sic], annulet stops, but not before IBAT, ornate cross fleury, crowned leopards in angles, E at centre, 7.78g [120.2grns], 11h, p.m. -/crown (LAL AK/74; Doubleday 78 this coin; North 1173; Spink 1489), a flan split at 4 oclock, a scratch below pyx mark on reverse and partial striking softness across aged dies resulting in flat portraiture, otherwise of full weight, residually lustrous and a bolder fine to almost very fine as issued, with an esteemed pedigree Provenance The Lost Collection of Simon English Esq. Spink, by private treaty, 14 June 1972 - £441 G V Doubleday, Glendining, 7-8 June 1972, lot 78 [with his tickets]
