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Auction: 19004 - Coins and Commemorative Medals: Spring Auction
Lot: 134

Commonwealth (1649-60), Sixpence, 1656, 2.95g, m.m. sun, shield of England within palm and laurel wreath, rev. conjoined shields of England and Ireland, value above (Tisbury I, lot 856, same dies; ESC 204 {1492}; N.2726; S.3219), an attractive coin save only for a trace of double-striking on obverse, pleasingly brilliant in recesses and centrally struck-up, extremely fine or near so, rare thus

provenance
Hepburn-Wright, collection dispersed by Spink (acquired June 1964 - "EF") - £40.0.0
Dr Carter, collection purchased en bloc by Baldwin, 1950

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Sold for
£2,600