Edward III Gold Noble
Edward III Gold Noble
Pre-Treaty
Series Gbc
7.68g 32.6mm
Spink – 1490 v
North – 1180
Obverse:
EDWARD DEI GRA REX ANGL Z FRANC D HYB. King standing facing in a ship, sword in right hand, shield in left, small saltire stops.
Reverse:
IHC AVTEM TEM TRANCIENS P MEDIV ILLORVM IBA. Florated cross with lis terminals, lions between with crowns above, all within tressure of eight arches, annulet stops, small E in centre.
Good very fine, full flan. A superb example. The double TEM error in the reverse legend it not recorded in Lawrence, very rare thus.
Part of the SW Buckinghamshire Hoard 2014 (PAS BUC-3F1861)
Notes from PAS:
“A small dispersed hoard of six medieval gold nobles. They are all official issues of King Edward III, issued between 1356 and 1369…. Six gold nobles was came to the sum of £2, a large sum for anyone below elite levels of English society, at the very least the equivalent of hundreds of pounds in modern terms. The noble was the highest-value coin in production, so a group of nobles of around the same period, without the lesser gold or silver denominations, can only be viewed as selected material, probably savings or a special purpose accumulation. These coins would have been deposited together sometime around 1370.”
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