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Auction: 23004 - Ancient and British Coins - Featuring the 'White Rose' Collection
Lot: 386

Iron Age Britain, Corieltauvi, Volisios Dumnocoveros (AD 30-60), North Eastern Series, AV Stater, VO-LI | SI - OS across field divided by wheat ear, roses in angles, rev. disjointed horse left, DVM above, NOCO below, VER before, 5.35g [82.6grns], 9h (VA 978-1; Hobbs 3330-3336; ABC 1980; Spink 416), the obverse struck with a worn die and rather waterworn, the reverse otherwise beautifully centred and exhibiting the full horse's head and legends, modest splits to a baser rose-gold flan, fine / good very fine, rare

Provenance

Spink, by private treaty, 8 December 1942 [ref. G10069 / Inv. H5152] - £3.10.0

'SSB', cabinet purchased by Spink, Spring 1942

'SSB' is confirmed in the surviving Spink Stock G Inventory Book as belonging to the collection of Sir Samuel Boulton, and thus:

Sir Denis Duncan Harold Owen Boulton, 3rd Baronet and Honorary Equerry to Her Royal Highness Princess Louise († 10 August 1968), a survivor of the torpedoing of RMS Lusitania (Cabin A8, Ticket 20609) on 7 May 1915, and possessor of the collection at time of sale to Spink

Sir Harold Edwin Boulton, 2nd Baronet († 1 June 1935), author of the 'The Skye Boat Song', and painted by Bassano in the National Portrait Gallery

~ thence by descent ~

Sir Samuel Bagster Boulton, 1st Baronet († 27 April 1918)

Samuel was buying in the decade before his decease, with auction pedigrees from Martinetti (November 1907); Sir John Evans (May 1909); W C Hazlitt (July 1909); and private transactions from H. Hoffman (1891) and E J Seltman (1894-1920). Following his stint as Vice-President of the London Chamber of Commerce (1893-1898), he was created a Baronet in 1905. Of his seven children, Harold would inherit the Baronetcy and daughter Mabel, better known to history as Mrs. St. Clair Stobart, would be a leading suffragette and founder of Women's Sick and Wounded Convoy Corps (WSWCC) that saw action in Serbia (1912) and the Western Front during the Great War.

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Sold for
£1,800

Starting price
£700