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Auction: 15031 - The Slaney Collection of English Coins - Part 2
Lot: 367

Charles II (1660-85), Five-Guineas, 1673, carolvs. ii. dei. gratia, first laureate bust right, pointed truncation, rev. inverted die axis, mag. br. fra. et. hib. rex., four crowned shields cruciform, eight strings to Irish harp, sceptres in angles, cross of four interlinked Cs in centre, edge with inverted raised letters *. decvs. et. tvtamen. anno. regni. vicesimo. qvinto * (MCE 8; Schneider -; S.3328), a spectacular example, a few light hairlines under a remarkable deep rich red tone, extremely fine with lustrous original surfaces, an exceptional coin with an exemplary provenance and very rare thus

provenance
Purchased from Baldwin, 1951, £120
Dr E C Carter, collection purchased Baldwin
J G Murdoch, second portion, Sotheby, 8-13 June 1903, lot 504, 'brilliant', £12.5/-
H Montagu, final portion, Sotheby, 16-20 November 1897, lot 440, 'extremely fine and a rare date' , £13.2/6
W Brice, collection purchased en bloc by H Montagu in 1887



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