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Auction: 22109 - The David Hoover Collection of Crowns: 1551-1953
Lot: 2015

(x) NGC XF45 | James I (1603-1625), Third Coinage, Crown, 18 June 1624 - 7 July 1625, Tower, (m.m.) IACOBVS D : G : MAG : BRIT : FRAN : ET HI : REX, King on horseback trotting right, ground line below, rev. (m.m.) QVÆ DEVS CONIVNXIT NEMO SEPARET •, no stops in legend except after SEPARET, square-topped and lightly garnished shield, 29.96g, 2h, m.m. trefoil (FRC XI/XXI, lot - [cf. -/38], and pp. 150-151, no. 5 and (k); Lingford 68; Barr IV, C529; North 2120; Spink 2664), toned, a pleasing very fine with flares of underlying residual lustre, an extremely rare die combination not included in the Cooper dispersal and referred to only speculatively in his 1970 BNJ article from the then two known specimens (Lingford and the British Museum)

Provenance
Sundial Valley Farms, Stack’s Bowers, 16 August 2021, lot 40451



Since publication of Cooper's article a further five coins have surfaced, the inferior and split Barr specimen (Rasmussen FPL, April 2006, C529), subsequently sold in the Michael S Tallent (Stack's, 24 April 2008, lot 43) and an unprovenanced specimen (DNW, 8 October 2002, lot 1170). Besides this coin, a third would surface at the Bonhams sale (20 April 2011, lot 247); a fourth and fifth from Spink (SNC, November 2012, no. 4897) and (Auction 238, lot 1250); and lastly an example in a Richardson FPL (October 2015, no. 37). Images of the other known specimens ensures that seven examples are extant, it remains unclear which was the Lingford coin owing to the absence on an illustration in the 1950 dispersal catalogue.


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Sold for
£2,500

Starting price
£1800