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Auction: 20004 - British Coins and Commemorative Medals: Spring Auction - conducted behind CLOSED DOORS
Lot: 220

Charles I (1625-49), Unite, Group B, c.1625-26, Tower, 8.42g, 10h, m.m. cross calvary, (m.m.) carolvs: d: g: mag: bri: fra: et: rex, second crowned and draped bust left, with ruff, value behind, rev. flrent concordia regna [sic], no stops, crowned and lightly garnished square-topped shield [3] (Brooker 31/-; cf. Schneider II, 121 (m.m. to left of crown); N.2148; S.2687), possibly once gilt with partial softness to periphery and a small scuff to rim at reverse 9 o'clock, nevertheless the portrait and devices pleasingly crisp with the die striations further pronounced in fields, a handsome coin, much as struck, with the legend error unknown to Brooker or Schneider, rare thus

provenance
Spink-Smythe, Collector's Series Sale (303), New York, 28-29 September 2010, lot 1059 - $3,000

Whilst unrecorded by Schneider, an example of this unusual but overt spelling error appeared in the Sotheby sale of 9-11 April 1900, lot 476 (part), the property of the late Cornelius Cartwright Esq. of Dudley, being purchased by Mr Nelson for £2.0.0. A second example appeared at the sales of Milford Henry Bollender of Orangeville, Illinois on 8 October 1929, lot 291; and again as a reoffer in his 2 December 1930, lot 564. On both occasions this coin was described as 'fine to very fine'. With the unfortunate absence of plates with these sales, it is not known whether the present example is the third example to surface or if it is a duplicate of another offering.

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Sold for
£2,000

Starting price
£1800