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Auction: 20004 - British Coins and Commemorative Medals: Spring Auction - conducted behind CLOSED DOORS
Lot: 279

Charles I (1625-49), Shilling, a contemporary forgery from false dies, struck in fine silver, in the style of Group E, Tower, 4.35g, 12h, m.m. tun, reads hib: rex, crude portrait left, xii behind, rev. christo • avspcie • regno [sic], square-topped shield over cross moline (cf. Sharp F1; Brooker 1199 this coin; cf. S.2794), small flan split at 12 o'clock, otherwise toned, good fine, the reverse better, rare with a solid pedigree

provenance
'A Group of 17th Century Counterfeits from a Deceased Estate', DNW 89, 29 September 2010, lot 2308 (via S Mitchell, January 2000)
J G Brooker, collection dispersed by Spink through the Numismatic Circular, from 1978
R C Lockett, part X (English IV), Glendining, 26-27 April 1960, lot 4241 (part) - £13.0.0
The Lockett catalogue notes: 'one time in the collection of Fred Baldwin, who collected them over a period of fifty years'

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Sold for
£180

Starting price
£140