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Auction: 18006 - Ancient, Indian and Islamic, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 1747

Charles II (1660-85), Five-Guineas, 1684 tricesimo sexto, second laureate head right, elephant and castle below, rev. crowned shields cruciform, ornamented sceptres in angles (MCE 30; S.3332), scattered nail marks in fields, and light rim scuffs at 1 and 4 o'clock, the recesses otherwise lustrous, the portrait bold, very fine

provenance
Believed to have been the property of Sir John Musgrove, 1st Baronet of Rusthall House, Kent, formerly High Sheriff (1843-44), and later Lord Mayor (1850-51) of London for the year of the Great Exhibition. In his early career, he was an auctioneer and house agent which may prove a likely explanation for how the coin first entered his possession. Latterly gifted by him to Ms. Sarah Jane Moore about the occasion of her marriage to Mr. Thomas Fox in Surrey in August 1878, and from there by descent.

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Sold for
£11,000