Charles II (1649-1685), Second coinage, Quarter-Dollar (Fourteen Shillings), 1676, small f below bust, 6.51g/6h (Murray 43; SCBI 35, 1626, same obv. die; cf. B 2, fig. 1056; S 5620). Struck from carefully produced dies but some evidence of working in the fields and legends, perhaps sometime lightly cleaned, better than very fine and rare thus £300-£400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Scottish Coins, the Property of a Gentleman.

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Bt Spink June 2001

The superior quality of die-cutting and strike was noted on a specimen from the same dies sold in Baldwin of St James’s Auction 29 which was described as being from polished dies and ‘struck like a proof’.