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Auction: 19007 - Coins and Commemorative Medals: Winter Auction
Lot: 167

Scotland, Charles I (1625-49), gold Unit, third coinage, type I ~ 'Briot's issue', 9.92g, 6h, half-length king right, wearing ornate armour, holding orb and sceptre, small thistle and letter b sideways to left above crown, rev. crowned shield dividing cypher (Burns 3, fig.1032 same dies; SCBI 35 [Ashmolean ~ Scottish Coins], 1392 same dies; S.5531), a light crease before nose and trace roughness on edge, otherwise lightly toned, good very fine, a pleasing example of this ever-popular type

provenance
'The Archer collection'
Spink auction 16, 9-10 July 1981, lot 809 - £1,900

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Sold for
£5,200

Starting price
£2500