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Auction: 23005 - The "Haddenham" Collection of English Coins
Lot: 542

The 'Haddenham' Collection of English Coins | James I (1603-1625), Third Coinage, Welsh 'Plumes' Crown, 4 July 1623 - 17 June 1624, Tower, with bullion supplied by Welsh Mines, (m.m.) IACOBVS D : G : MAG : BRI : FRAN : ET HIB : REX, D over E (?), King on horseback trotting right, grassy ground line below, rev. (m.m.) QVÆ DEVS CONIVNXIT NEMO SEPARET, no stops in legend, square-topped and lightly garnished shield surmounted by plume, 29.97g [462.4grns], 1h, m.m. lys (FRC X/XIX [sale lot 34]; Lingford 62/63 same dies; Rees-Jones 13 = Van-Roekel 17 = Stewartby V, 1791; Rowley-Butters 310; North 2121; Spink 2665), a hint of doubling to legends, otherwise evenly worn to portrait and richly cabinet toned, strictly fine / a really good fine and rare

Provenance

Warwick & Warwick 581, 8 March 2006, lot 96 - £1,000



An evidently rare die pairing, particularly in the unaltered die state (latterly over-punched by the trefoil mintmark, cf. Stewartby V, Spink, 28 March 2017], lot 1791), suggesting these dies were prepared late into the lys pyx-period to coin a new supply of silver bullion from the Welsh mines. The late arrival and serviceability of the still fresh dies ensured their continued use into the adjacent phase of production. Only two further examples have been traced at worldwide public auction by this cataloguer besides the Stewartby-Van Roekel-Rees-Jones specimen; namely the Rowley-Butters coin (18 June 2008, lot 310 - unsold); and an unpedigreed example that again appeared in London (DNW, 30 June 2004, lot 93 - £2,415), pointing to its quite prohibitive scarcity in commerce.

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Sold for
£1,600

Starting price
£320