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Auction: 22105 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 20 - The Wootton Collection of English Silver Coins - e-Auction
Lot: 2235

Commonwealth (1649-1660), Crown, 1656 'Small 6 over 4', • THE • COMMONWEALTH • OF • ENGLAND •, second N over inverted N, English shield within palm and laurel wreath, rev. • 1656 • GOD • WITH • VS, 'inverted A for V' in VS, conjoined shields of England and Ireland, 29.89g, 3h, m.m. sun [on obv. only] (cf. Bull 13; ESC 9; North 2721; Spink 3214), heavily tooled and smoothed in fields and legend recesses, presenting a 'washed out' and dishonest appearance, otherwise struck details about very fine, a coin that definitely leaves one ruing its adulteration!

Provenance
I Timmins, Stafford Coin Fair, 10 May 1995



Bull 13 lists this obverse with small 6 and inverted N only with the reverse with inverted A for V in VS. Many examples however do not have the inverted A. This reverse die, which is the most common of the small 6 dies, and is easily recognised by the upright line flaw to the right of the mark of value, does not have the inverted A but has the normal V in VS, and is most frequently paired with an obverse that has the second N over an inverted N.
The old ESC does not distinguish either the inverted N or the A for V, and so all the small 6 over 4s are ESC 9, and all the large 6 over small 6 over 4s are ESC 9A.

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Sold for
£1,000

Starting price
£450