England (1351-52) noble Fr-89
This specimen was lot 21026 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Chicago, August 2019), where it sold for $2,640. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Noble, ND (1351-52). London Mint. Edward III. NGC EF-45. Fourth coinage, pre-treaty period; [mintmark]: -/cross pattée. Obverse: Edward, holding sword and shield, standing facing in ship; Reverse: Ornate cross with lis at each end and Є in center; crowned lions passant in each quarter; all within polylobe, with alternating crowns and lis in arches and trefoils in spandrels. Quite well struck for the type, with some minor handling and an attractive tone." The noble was introduced by Edward III as part of a monetary reform and was tariffed at eighty pence (6 shillings 8 pence) and was the first gold coin to circulate in several centuries.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: gold, 120 grains (7.8 g).
Catalog reference: S-1486; Fr-89; North-1144.
- Lobel, Richard, Mark Davidson, Allan Hailstone and Eleni Calligas, Coincraft's Standard Catalogue of English and UK Coins, 1066 to Date, London: Coincraft, 1995.
- Skingley, Philip, ed., Standard Catalogue of British Coins: Coins of England & the United Kingdom, 46th edition, London: Spink & Son, 2011.
- Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The August 2019 Chicago ANA Auction: World Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2019.
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