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A Lost Parcel from the Celebrated Horace Hird Collection | Henry VII (1485-1509), 'Double Ryal' or Sovereign [of 20-Shillings], Type Vb, (1 December 1505 - April 1509), Tower, (m.m.) hEnRICVS : DEI : GRACIA : REX | AnGLIE : ET : FRANC •' DnS •' hIB •' double saltire stops, King seated on narrow throne simplistically ornamented with fine latice work and pellet backing, holding orb and sceptre, flanked by pillars, portcullis below, rev. (m.m.) ihESVS : AVTEM : TRAnSIEnS : PER : MEDIVM : ILLORVM : IBAT •:•, crosslet stops with four at terminus of legend, Royal shield set on Tudor Rose inside ornate floral tressure with 'bunches of grapes' terminals, spandrels otherwise plain, 15.24g [235.1grns], 8h, m.m. Lis II/pheon (HCN 339; Murdoch III, 706 [Henry VIII, 238.5grns]; Murdoch I, 407 [Henry VIII, 235.5grns]; Rashleigh -; Brooke IVc = BM 1935.0401.817 same dies; BM 1866.0713.1 = Carlyon-Britton [1925], pp. and Pl. V, no. 82 same dies; Potter & Winstanley Vb = Lockett 4039 this coin mentioned; SCBI Ashmolean 83, same dies; Schneider I, 551/- same obverse die, but the rev. m.m. unrepresented; North 1692/2; Spink 2176), on a slightly concave and bright flan, otherwise a pleasingly uniform and broad strike, near very fine, extremely rare with only six examples known to Potter and Winstanley, two of those in Museums; yet the National Collection not acquiring a comparative example until 1935, and only the Dr Carter example resurfacing in recent commerce From the Lockett, J Pierpont-Morgan and Sir John Evans Collections