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Auction: 22105 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 20 - The Wootton Collection of English Silver Coins - e-Auction
Lot: 2239

Commonwealth (1649-1660), Shilling, 1649, Tower, • THE • COMMONWEALTH • OF • ENGLAND •, English shield within palm and laurel wreath, rev. • 1649 • GOD • WITH • VS, conjoined shields of England and Ireland, 5.55g, 5h, m.m. sun [on obv. only] (Bull 69; ESC 982; North 2724; Spink 3217), double-struck on obverse with a deficient planchet resulting in an overt split at 3 o'clock, the surfaces waterworn and porous from deposition with traces of blackening indicative of the Blackfriars find, the date exceptionally bold, and significant as the seminal year of the Commonwealth coinage, struck details approaching very fine in parts, rare

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