Auction Catalogue

26 September 2007

Starting at 10:00 AM

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The COINEX Sale: Important British, Italian and World Coins

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 151

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26 September 2007

Hammer Price:
£2,200

Charles I (1625-1649), Charles I (1625-1649), Shrewsbury mint, Crown, 1642, no mm, Shrewsbury horseman, Shrewsbury plume behind, groundline below, rev. three Shrewsbury plumes and mark of value between pellets above Declaration, 29.69g/5h (Morr. B-3; SCBI Brooker 807, same dies; N 2370; S 2926). On a slightly irregular flan with fine hairline striking crack at 5 and 11 o’clock, otherwise very fine, rare (£1,500-1,800)

Provenance:
N. Asherson Collection, Spink Auction 6, 10-11 October 1979, lot 638
bt J. Lepczyk