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Auction: 15031 - The Slaney Collection of English Coins - Part 2
Lot: 356

Charles I (1625-49), Pontefract besieged June 1648 - March 1649, lozenge shaped Two-Shillings, 9.64g, 1648, dvm: spiro: spero., sketchy 'beaded' outer border and wire line inner border, large, simple but neat crown over c.r, rev. sketchy 'beaded' outer border and no inner border, castle gateway with central tower dividing p-c, obs at left, hand holding sword at right, date below (Nelson p.33, fig.43; N.2645; S.3147), lightly double struck on date, otherwise almost extremely fine, toned and crisp, a most impressive example of this rare denomination

Provenance
S R Naish, collection offered in Seaby's special list 338, November 1945, item N.240, £75.
R Cartwright, Tudor and Stuart collection purchased by Seaby, 1935
B M S Roth, Sotheby, 14-17 October 1918, lot 417 (illustrated), 'extremely fine and excessively rare', £40
J E Moon, Sotheby, 7-10 May 1901, lot 237, ' very fine and excessively rare', £25
H Montagu, Sotheby, 7-12 May 1888, lot 377, 'extremely fine and rare', £22.10/-
W Brice, collection purchased en bloc by H Montagu in 1887
J B Bergne, Sotheby, 20 May 1873, lot 788, 'probably intended for a Two Shilling Piece; very fine and rare, believed to be unpublished, from the Devonshire Cabinet', £10.2/6
Duke of Devonshire, Christie, 26-30 March 1844, the Pontefract pieces were offered in lots 466-470. In the Spink library copy of the Devonshire catalogue, lot 467, which contained two coins, one round and one lozenge, was sold to Bergne.


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Sold for
£44,000