The Lost Collection of Simon English Esq. | Edward VI (1547-1553), Second Period, First Issue, Gold Crown, or Quarter-Sovereign, 24 January 1549 - 12 April 1549, Tower, EDWARD : VI : D : G : AGL : FR • Z • HIB : REX, crowned oval and elaborately garnished shield, dividing E-R, rev. (m.m.) SCVTVM : FIDEI : PROTEGET : EVM . youthful bare head and cuirassed bust right, double lozenge stops, 2.68g [41.4grns], 3h, p.m. -/arrow (Potter 1(b); Montagu II, 796 same dies; Lord Hastings = Hilton-Price 113 = Moon = Bruun 600 = Drabble 142 same dies; Ryan 240 same dies; Lockett 1863 same dies; Schneider I, 676 same dies; North 1913; Spink 2441), faint traces of crimping on a neat round flan, otherwise of honest appearance with a handsome overlying orange-brown cabinet tone, a pleasing very fine, extremely rare and a technical superior to the recently offered Hird example Provenance The Lost Collection of Simon English Esq. Glendining-Spink, 27-28 November 1974, lot 551 - very fine and extremely rare - £1,400
