Auction: 15031 - The Slaney Collection of English Coins - Part 2
Lot: 350
Charles I (1625-39), Carlisle besieged October 1644 - June 1645, Shilling, 5.09g, 1645, crown over .:c:r:. and .xii. below, rev. obs carl 1645 in two lines, rosette (anemone) below (Nelson 4; N.2636; S.3139), has been creased, otherwise very fine or better, very rare, the rarer of the two varieties
provenance
Purchased from Baldwin, 1944, £20
H O O'Hagan, Sotheby, 16-20 December 1907, lot 524, 'fine and rare' £5.15/-, noted in the Spink library copy of the catalogue as purchased by W C Weight of Letchworth - his collection was dispersed in ad hoc fashion after his death in 1923
H Montagu, third portion, Sotheby, 13-19 November 1896, lot 634, £4.15/-
Addington, collection purchased en bloc by H Montagu in 1883
T Brown, Sotheby, 26-31 July 1869, lot 582
Hall,
Duke of Devonshire, Christie, 26-30 March 1844, two similar coins offered, lot 463 'fine and rare, £2.2/- and lot 464, 'fair', £2.
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Sold for
£16,000