Beschreibung:

A Lost Parcel from the Celebrated Horace Hird Collection | Henry VIII (1509-1547), Third Coinage, Type IIb, [20ct. Fineness], Small Module, Sovereign [of 20-Shillings], (June 1545 - April 1547), Southwark, (E) hEnRIC .' 8 .' DI .' GRA .' AGL .' FRAnCIE '. Z '. hIB '. REX .' double sleeve or 'hook' stops, mature Holbeinesque portrait of King holding orb and sceptre, seated on throne, very fine latice work and pellet backing, flanked by pillars, Tudor Rose below, rev. (m.m.) ihS : AVTEM : TRAnSIEnS : PER : MEDIVM : ILLOR : IBAT, double trefoil stops, crowned Royal shield flanked by supporters, HR in cartouche below, 12.19g [188.5grns], 11h, m.m. E/S (HCN 18; Whitton 14 this coin, dies F/ff; Schneider I, - [cf. 611]; North 1825; Spink 2291), some very faint parallel scoring across bust, otherwise with attractive reddish tone and unusually uniform for strike, a bold very fine, presumed UNIQUE BNS, Ordinary Meeting: 25 May 1949: 'By the President on behalf of Mr. H. Hird: Cast on an unpublished sovereign of the last coinage of Henry VIII, with obverse i.m. Lombardic E, reverse S. The stops on obverse are 'sleeves' which Brooke calls "hooks", and on the reverse trefoils. This coin forms the long-looked-for complement to the sovereign in the B.M. which has obv. i.m. S and rev. Lombardic E. The reverse die of the new coin also, with i.m. S, is new, previously all S coins known were found to be struck from the same pair of dies.'