Auction Catalogue

19 June 2008

Starting at 10:00 AM

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British and World Coins including Important Irish Coins from a Private Collection (Part I)

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 296

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19 June 2008

Estimate: £3,500–£4,000

James I (1603-1625), Third coinage, Crown, mm. thistle, 29.51g/3h (FRC VIII/XIV [not in Sale]; N 2120; S 2664). Better than very fine, toned, an extremely rare die-combination (£3,500-4,000)

Provenance:
SNC October 1942 (16424)
Marshall Collection, Spink Auction 167, 31 March 2004, lot 112.

A coin from this pair of dies was sold in DNW 60, 9-10 December 2003, lot 600; Cooper never noted a specimen, but believed that one coin from the Lingford collection (lot 58) might have been from the same rev. die