IV: Coins of Oliver Cromwell, Pattern or Trial Broad of 20 Shillings, 1656, by T. Simon, in silver, from the same dies as previous, edge grained, 6.16g/95.3gr/6h (Lessen, BNJ 1996, A3; cf. N 2744; cf. S 3225). Good very fine and toned, extremely rare; very few specimens known £6,000-£8,000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The North Yorkshire Moors Collection of British Coins.

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Provenance: H.K. Hepburn-Wright Collection; bt Spink 1964.

Three or four of these silver broads on thin flans are known to exist, as well as a plain-edged specimen on a thick flan in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow. They may have been trial or die-proof strikings, or alternatively low-cost examples for presentation to dignitaries or other officials