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Auction: 20005 - The Stratos Sale of Spectacular English Gold Coins
Lot: 72

Oliver Cromwell, Pattern Broad, 1656, by Thomas Simon, OLIVAR • D • G • R P • ANG • SCO • ET • HIB & PRO •, laureate head left, rev PAX • QVÆRITVR • BELLO • 16 56 •, crowned shield, edge straight milled, 9.08g, 6h (Murdoch III, 450-451; King 87-89; Lessen A2; Schneider II, 367; W&R 39; Spink 3225), glorious red tone overlying lustrous surfaces framing a cameo-like portrait, a faint scatter of surface marks, otherwise a magnificent coin with superb eye appeal and a prestigious provenance, very rare thus

Provenance
The Chalaza Collection
Selig, Part I, Spink 70, 31 May 1989, lot 241 [third colour plate]
Purchased Spink, 1971




NGC MS63 (Certification #5880291-005)

https://www.ngccoin.com/certlookup/5880291-005/63/

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Sold for
£47,000

Starting price
£10000