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Auction: 20004 - British Coins and Commemorative Medals: Spring Auction - conducted behind CLOSED DOORS
Lot: 291

Charles I (1625-49), Shillings, contemporary forgeries from false dies, in silver-plated base alloys, Tower (3), in the style of Group E, 4.32g, 10h, m.m. tun, 'fifth' portrait left, large xii behind, rev. stop to left of m.m. (cf. Sharp F1; cf. Brooker 513-14; cf. N.2228; cf. S.2794); 2); another, in the style of Group F, type 4.4, 4.42g, 2h, m.m. sun/triangle-in-circle (cf. Sharp G1-2; cf. Brooker 561-63/549-50; cf. N.2231; cf. S.2800/2799); lastly, in the style of Group G, 4.39g, 7h, m.m. illegible (cf. Sharp H1; cf. Brooker 564-66; cf. S.2802), all with traces of silvering but copper cores largely or wholly exposed, generally fair to fine for strike, an interesting group (3)

provenance
i) DNW 135, 21 March 2016, lot 29 (part)
ii) 'A Group of 17th Century Counterfeits from a Deceased Estate', DNW 89, 29 September 2010, lot 2316 [part] (via S Mitchell, June 2001)


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