North Yorkshire Moors Collection, Part IV: Coins and Medals

XIV: Seals by Simon, Oliver Cromwell’s Privy Seal as Protector, February 1654, a uniface steel electrotype copy of the Counterseal (reverse), shield with arms, lion and dragon supporters, lion séjant on crowned helmet above, pax qværitvr bello on ribbon below, olivarivs dei gra reipvb angliæ scotiæ et hiberniæ &c protector, 60mm, 56.26g (Henfrey pp.20 and 192, and pl. i, 7; Vertue pl. xxxviii). About extremely fine £100-£150

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

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Provenance: R.C. and O.M.W. Warner Collection; bt Baldwin 1968.

The original silver matrix (die) is in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford