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Auction: 22105 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 20 - The Wootton Collection of English Silver Coins - e-Auction
Lot: 2213

An Academic Collection of Jacobean Sixpences (42) | James I (1603-1625), First Coinage (6), 1603 (4), first bust, m.m. thistle (2) (Spink 2647); second bust, m.m. thistle and lis (2) (Spink 2648); and, Second Coinage (29), third bust (6), 1604, m.m. lis (3), one pierced, one bent, one heavily flawed; 1605, m.m. rose (3) (Spink 2657); also, fourth bust (23), 1606 (6), m.m. rose (3), m.m. escallop (3); 1607 (3), m.m. coronet, grapes and escallop; 1608, m.m. coronet; 1609 (3), m.m. coronet, key and key over grapes or escallop; 1610 (2), 1610 over 09, m.m. key; another, m.m. bell over key / bell; and, 1611 (2), m.m. mullet over bellet / mullet; 1612, m.m. tower over mullet; 1613, m.m. trefoil (2); 1614, m.m. cinquefoil; 1615 (3), m.m. cinquefoil; and, m.m. tun (2) (Spink 2658), and Anglo-Irish, 'Harp' Sixpence, 1606-07, m.m. bell (Spink 6517); lastly, Third Coinage, sixth bust (5), 1621 (2), m.m. rose and thistle [?]; 1622, m.m. thistle; 1623, m.m. lis; and, 1624, m.m. trefoil ,(Spink 2670), highly variable grades, some soil found, others creased, pierced, porous or pitted, others again toned, mediocre to fine, a solid starting group for the budding Jacobean numismatist (42)

Provenance
All with collectors' tickets documenting private acquisitions from Senior, Viola, Richardson, Buck, Bayford et al. between March 1993 and 2000.


The 1614 Sixpence acquired at Brighton, 27 October 2003, and:
H M Lingford, collection purchased en bloc by Baldwin, 1951 [with Baldwin ticket]

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Sold for
£2,600

Starting price
£450