★ Ex Lockett, Mann and Walters Collections ★

Great Britain, Tudor. Philip & Mary (1554-1558) AV Angel. Class 4. Tower (London) mint, struck 1554-1558. ⚜ PHILIP' • Z : MARIA: D' • G' • REX • Z : REGINA : AN' •, the Archangel Michael slaying dragon with cross-pommelled lance / ⚜ • A • DNO' • FACTVM : EST : ISTVD : Z : EST : MIRABILE, ship bearing coat-of-arms and crowned cross, P-M flanking cross. SCBC 2496; Schneider 727 var. (legend stops); North 1965; Friedberg 196. 5.16g, 30mm, 9h.

Good Very Fine; struck on an unusually broad planchet, light reddish-blue tone. Very Rare.

From the Long Valley River Collection;
Ex G.W. Trow Collection;
Ex M. Rasmussen FPL 27, Spring 2015, no. C54 (£20,000);
Ex Richard Cyril Lockett Collection, Glendining & Co. Ltd, 11 October 1956, lot 1934;
Ex A. Mann Collection; Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 29 October 1917, lot 296;
Ex F. A. Walters Collection, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 26 May 1913, lot 560.