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Auction: 22109 - The David Hoover Collection of Crowns: 1551-1953
Lot: 2009

(x) NGC VF35 | James I (1603-1625), First Coinage, Crown, 24 March 1603 - 22 May 1604, Tower, (m.m.) • IACOBVS • D .' G .' ANG .' SCO .' FRAN .' ET • HIB .' REX •, King on horseback trotting right, ground line below, rev. (m.m.) • EXVRGAT • DEVS • DISSIPENTVR • INIMICI •, square-topped and lightly garnished shield, 29.59g, 2h, m.m. thistle (FRC II/III, lot 17; North 2070; Spink 2643), some partial peripheral striking softness and a tiny flaw in obverse field, otherwise handsome and uniform cabinet tone, the caparison detail pleasingly bold, good fine / very fine, rare especially in this attractively balanced state, in NGC holder, graded VF35 (Cert. #2824363-001) [Joint Finest Certified]

Provenance
CNG Auction 108, 16 May 2018, lot 1158
SNC, February 2014, EH5074 - £3,650
L Bennett, Monmouth, by private treaty with Spink, 23 October 2013
Spink 214, 26-27 September 2012, lot 594 - £2,500
Alan Barr, Part Four, Rasmussen FPL, 2008, C526 - £2,750



~ Regrettably the earlier Spink tickets as advertised at the CNG auction were not checked, otherwise the discovery that they actually relate to Barr, Part III, no. 381 (dies II/II) as testified in the Spink Numismatic Circular, July-August 1986, no. 5029 would have been noted. The errant tickets evidently became confused at the time of the Barr dispersal and are not applicable here but are nonetheless recorded for posterity in the hope they can be properly reunited. ~



Alan Barr, Part III, Rasmussen FPL, Summer 2005, no. 381
Lord Rodney Smith of Marlow, second collection purchased en bloc by Spink, 1983 [with Spink ticket in hand of Sinclair - 'RS J2' - £800]
Glendining, Second Portion, 18 June 1975, lot 53 [via Spink, with ticket in hand of Finn - £640, reverse later annotated by Rasmussen 'Only 2 specimens known (FRC) - £1,100]



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Sold for
£3,000

Starting price
£2700