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Auction: 19004 - Coins and Commemorative Medals: Spring Auction
Lot: 132

Charles I (1625-49), Sixpence, 1646, Newark, 3.00g, large crown between CR (SCBI XXXIII {Brooker}, 1228, same dies; N.2642; S.3146), double-struck on reverse, otherwise with dark 'Chippendale' cabinet tone, very fine of better for issue

provenance
Major The Lord St. Oswald M.C., Christie, 13 October 1964, lot 108 - £32.0.0 (Miller)
Nostell Priory collection

The Lord St. Oswald collection was originally housed at Nostell Priory, Yorkshire in a 'remarkably fine Chippendale coin cabinet for which there still exists the original bill", from its formation in the late 18th Century until its dispersal in October 1964.

For further discussion on aspects of the collection, see: Blunt and Dolley's article for BNJ XXX {1960-61}, "Coins at Nostell Priory, Yorkshire", pp. 360-61,

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Sold for
£2,400