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Auction: 22109 - The David Hoover Collection of Crowns: 1551-1953
Lot: 2011

(x) NGC XF40 | James I (1603-1625), Second Coinage, Crown, 1 July - 11 November 1607, Tower, revised legends, (m.m.) • IACOBVS • D .' G .' MAG .' BRIT .' FRAN .' ET • HIB .' REX •, King on horseback trotting right, ground line below, rev. (m.m.) • QVÆ • DEVS • CONIVNXIT • NEMO • SEPARET •, square-topped and lightly garnished shield, 30.29g, 7h, m.m. grapes over rose (FRC V*/VIII*, this coin listed and plated, lot 27; Tallent 33; Hulett VI, 376; North 2097; Spink 2652), usual die flaw below ground line and on reverse, slightly doubled to reverse legends with the usual light stressing in otherwise handsomely cabinet toned fields, the struck details considerably above average for issue, a most pleasing very fine, very rare, in NGC holder, graded XF40 (Cert. #2826542-001)

Provenance
AMR FPL, July 2010, no. 52 - £3,950
SNC, February 2004, HS1540 - lightly double-struck on reverse legend, otherwise on a full and attractive evenly toned coin, good very fine, very rare of this mark - £2,500
E Norweb, Part III, Spink 56, 19 November 1986, lot 948
K Woodhouse, Glendining, 11 December 1968, lot 38
W B Thorpe, second collection of 275 Crowns acquired en bloc by Spink, January 1952 [sold before listing in SNC, March 1952]
H M Lingford, Glendining, 24 November 1950, lot 57 - £24.0.0 [Baldwin] - "The obverse die is the rarest of the second coinage marks, struck from one obverse and two reverse dies. The obeverse die is engraved in low relief, and the Lingford grade for this piece 'extremely fine' is based on the absence of actual wear."
Baldwin, by private treaty, 1938 - £10.10.0



Baldwin handled a number of low profile dispersals of Crown collections following the Wall Street Crash, including the cabinets of Col. W. Symons (1932), H G C Day (1935) and E E Yates (1938) to name but a few. Similarly Spink would handle the dispersal of the Lt. Col T G Taylor Collection via the Numismatic Circular in May 1931, as well as the mysterious 'Wolfe Collection' in parcels all curiously described as having 'Indian tone' from 1927. Regrettably an earlier pedigree, whilst expected, is not yet discovered.



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Sold for
£4,600

Starting price
£2700