Groat, variety e. -

Edward I (1272-1307), New coinage, Groat, London, variety e (Fox 4), crowned wider-faced bust in quadrilobe, pellet in oval eyes, bushy hair, EDWARDVS : D'I : GRA’ : REX : ANGL’, large commas in punctuation, rev. : DN'S HIBN’E DVX AQVT, LONDONIA CIVI, 5.34g/1h (Allen, Corpus –, but 42, e1/r24, same dies [= RCL 2987]; Fox, BNJ 1910, pl. v, 4, and Spink 1, 176, same obv. die; N 1006; S 1379E).   Images courtesy of DNW, lot 552, 3rd July 2019.