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Auction: 23006 - The Official COINEX Auction at Spink
Lot: 194

Charles II (1660-1685), "Company of Royal Adventurers Trading into Africa", 'Elephant' Guinea, 1664, third laureate head right, Elephant below, rev. crowned shields cruciform, emblem-adorned sceptres in angles, six strings to harp, interlocking cypher at centre, edge straight milled, 8.09g, 6h (MCE 57; Farey 35 [ER]; EGC 233 [R3] - Bull G/2; Spink 3343), heavily circulated, flecked and nailmarked in brighter but residually lustrous fields, strictly fair, but extremely rare, with fewer than half-a-dozen examples documented on CoinArchives

Provenance

The 'Eleutherios' Collection of English Coins

LCA 148, 28 February 2015, lot 1857


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