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Auction: 21064 - The Horace Hird Collection of Tudor, Stuart and Commonwealth Coins and Patterns
Lot: 25

MS63 | Commonwealth (1649-1660), Gold Crown, 1658, • THE COMMONWEALTH OF ENGLAN • English shield within palm and laurel wreath, rev. • 1658 • GOD • WITH • VS, conjoined shields of England and Ireland, 2.35g [36.2grns], 2h, m.m. anchor [over sun] (HCN 307; BM E.1448; Montagu III, 677 = Murdoch II, 384 same dies; Ducie 39 this coin; Schneider II, 366 same dies; North 2720; Spink 3213), small scratches on English shield, otherwise a pleasingly round coin with a light but handsome cabinet tone, a bolder very fine, an excessively rare date, in NGC 'Horace Hird' holder, graded MS63 (Cert. #6135299-025)

Provenance
A Lost Parcel from the Celebrated Horace Hird Collection
The Right Hon. Capel Henry Berkeley Reynolds-Moreton, 5th Earl of Ducie, Glendining, 5 October 1949, lot 39 - extremely fine and rare - £18.10.0 [Baldwin for Hird]
Tortworth Court Estate, catalogued by W S Lincoln, 1883
Thomas Reynolds-Moreton, 1st Earl of Ducie († 1840), thence by descent
Arabella Bettesworth of East Hyde, Luton, gifted to her nephew, 1805
John Bettesworth, Chancellor of the Diocese of London, thence to his widow
Dr John Bettesworth, Dean of the Arches († 17 December 1751), thence to his son






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Sold for
£35,000

Starting price
£5000