★ From the Eliasberg and Clapp Collections ★

TUDOR. Elizabeth I. 1558-1603. AV Half Pound (31mm, 5.46 g, 5h). First–Fourth issues. Tower (London) mint; im: cross-crosslet. Struck 1560-1561. (cross-crosslet) ELIZABETH : D’· G’· ANG’· FR’· ET HI’· REGINA (triple pellet stop), crowned bust left, wearing ruff / (cross-crosslet) SCUTUM : FIDEI : PROTEGET : EAM ·, crowned coat-of-arms; E R flanking. Brown & Comber G7; Schneider 738 var. (legends and stops); North 1982; SCBC 2520. With NGC Photocertificate 1830949-077 graded XF 40.

From the DMS Collection. Ex Louis E. Eliasberg, Sr. Collection (American Numismatic Rarities, 18 April 2005), lot 359; John H. Clapp Collection (his estate to Eliasberg, 1942).