Ancient, British and World Coins and Banknotes, to include the Professor Jeffrey P Mass Collection of English Short Cross Coins, 1180-1247 (Part II) and British Medals from the James Spencer Collection (Part III)

Uninscribed issues, Quarter-Stater [Irstead type], hatched box and wreath pattern, rev. horse right, wheel below, 0.89g/12h (BMC 3436; VA 628; S 430). Off-centre and smoothed, otherwise nearly very fine (£120-150)

Provenance: recorded by Revd. Stukeley in the manuscript for his ‘23 plates’, 1762, then sold by the dealer White to a ‘Mr Gell’ of York, subsequently R.P. Mack Collection, Part I, 18 November 1975, lot 56 [from Spink 1955]; SCBI Mack 289, this coin