Coins and Historical Medals

Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Sixth issue, Sixpences (5), 1600/1596 [?], both mm. anchor, 2,80g/9h, 2.65g/11h (BCW AN-2:AN-h), 1600/159– (2), both mm. 0, 2.73g/6h, 2.70g/9h (BCW 0-1:0-a), 1600, mm. 0, 2.88g/4h, all bust 6C, read elizab d g ang fr et hib regi (BCW 0-1:0-c; N 2015; S 2578B) [5]. Last nearly very fine, others mostly about fine, some rare £120-£150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Coins of Elizabeth I from the Collection Formed by Walter Wilkinson.

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Provenance: First bt W.H. Pheatt February 1995 [from Formast October 1986]; second from the Thames (St Paul’s) Find, 1995, Baldwin Auction 14, 13-14 October 1997, lot 324 (part); third exchanged with S.A. Bole May 1999; fourth Wessex Numismatic Society Auction 130 (Bournemouth), 3 November 2015, lot 100; last bt C.D. Cooke November 2016