North Yorkshire Moors Collection, Part IV: Coins and Medals

XVII: Copies of Cromwell Coins, Broad of 20 Shillings, 1656, laureate bust left, rev. crowned shield, edge grained, 7.86g/121.4gr/6h (Lessen, BNJ 1996, p.132, a4b, this piece; cf. N 2744; cf. S 3225). A contemporary (?) forgery, weakly struck from rather crude but competent dies, creased, otherwise very fine and unusual £300-£400

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

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Provenance: Glendining Auction, 26 March 1942, lot 53 (part); bt Baldwin 1981