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Auction: 22105 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 20 - The Wootton Collection of English Silver Coins - e-Auction
Lot: 2229

An Academic Collection of Carolean Sixpences (29) | Charles I (1625-1649), Sixpences (30), Group A, Type 1, 1625, 'Coronation' bust, m.m. lis (2), 2.93g, 6h; 3.01g, 4h (Brooker 570-575; North 2235; Spink 2805), superficial marks on first, both toned with irregular flans, about fine; also, Group B (5), 1626 (3), m.m. cross calvary (2), 2.88g, 2h; 2.90g, 4h (Brooker 577-580); also, 1626, 2.26g, 4h, m.m. head (Brooker 581-583), creased and clipped, good to fair, a rare and highly prized pyx mark; also, Sixpence, 1627, 2.64g, 5h, m.m. castle (Brooker 584; North 2236; Spink 2807), creased, straightened and waterworn, otherwise fair, extremely rare; also, 1630, 2.52g, 7h, m.m. plume (Spink 2796), pierced, fair, rare; Group D (11), Type 3 (5), small bust, 1632-1633, m.m. harp (2), 2.72g, 6h; 2.47g, 10h; (Brooker 604-606), one creased, both flat, fair; large bust, 1.89g, 4h, m.m. illegible (Brooker 608-609), clipped, poor, but rare; also, 1633-1634 (2), 2.69g, 10h, m.m. small portcullis over harp [large / small] (Brooker -); another, 2.90g, 10h, m.m. small portcullis (Brooker 611-612; North 2240; Spink 2811), near fine; and, Type 3a (6), 1634-1635, m.m. bell (3) 2.74g, 2h; 3.10g, 6h; and, 2.60g, 10h (Brooker 614-616), the second cabinet toned, good fine, the others field finds and quite poor; also, 1635-1636, 2.78g, 11h, m.m. crown (Brooker 617-618; North 2241; Spink 2813), fair; lastly, 1636-1638, m.m. tun (2), 2.78g, 12h; another, 2.75g, 5h (Brooker 622-623), the first with darker tone, good fine, the second poor; additionally, Group E (5), 1636-1638, m.m. tun (2), 2.85g, 7h; 2.53g, 9h (Brooker 625-628), both about fine; and, 1639-1640, m.m. anchor (3), 2.34g, 12h, anchor left / upright [straight flukes]; 2.52g, 5h, anchor right / ? [rounded flukes], sheared in recent times, a large fragment; 3.03g, 4h, anchor ? / right [pointed flukes] (Brooker 629-636; North 2242-45; Spink 2814ff), the first a poor soil finr, the second cleaned and sheared, the last toned but double struck, these fine to very fine for issue; finally, Group F, 'Briot's Bust' (6), 1639-1640, m.m. triangle (3), 2.88g, 7h; 2.61g, 2h; 2.92g, 9h (Brooker 642-646); 1640-1641, 2.94g, 10h, m.m. star (Brooker 647-649); and, 1641-1643, 2.30g, 1h (Brooker 650-651; North 2246; Spink 2817), chipped and planchet split, otherwise fair; finally, under Parliament, 1643-1644, 2.50g, 7h, m.m. (P) (Brooker 652-654; Spink 2818), wavy and dusky flan, about fine; and, Briot's Milled Issue, Sixpence, 1638-1639, 2.73g, 6h, m.m. anchor and flower (North 2306; Spink 2860), quite flat with usual peripheral adjustment, mediocre for this issue; an interesting academic assortment of this tricky and complicated series (30)

Provenance
vi) [1627] - 'Sally & Stacy's 50th', M Senior, 16 August 1999 [via R S, June 1998]
B R Osborne, Glendining, 23 April 1991, lot 239 [part]
SCMB, March 1968, no. 5623 - fair, scarce - £2.15.0
SCMB, June 1967, no. 6012 - fair - £2.0.0
R Carlyon-Britton, SCMB, December 1960, SX112A - fair, RRR - £1.10.0
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1630 Plume) R Shuttlewood, SNC, June 2001, HS0626
H M Lingford, collection purchased en bloc by Baldwin, 1951 [with his ticket, stating:]
Baldwin, by private treaty, June 1949
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xvii) [1636-38, tun] - 'The Monk Collection of English Groats and Sixpences', SNC, April 2007, HS2909* - nearly VF - £65


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Sold for
£1,400

Starting price
£350