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Auction: 23051 - English Milled and Hammered Coins and Artefacts
Lot: 1116

James I (1603-1625), Second Coinage, Double-Crown, 1618-1619, Tower (m.m.) • IACOBVS : D ’. G ’. MAG ’. BRI ’. FR '. ET '. HIB ’. REX • fifth crowned bust right, rev. • (m.m.) • HENRICVS • ROSAS • REGNA • IACOBVS, crowned shield, dividing I-R, 4.86g, 10h, m.m. plain cross (Lingford 990(a); Schneider II, 41; North 2089; Spink 2623), clipped and bright with minor metal stressing behind bust, yet lustrous, with a linear die flaw in reverse field, nevertheless pleasingly uniform and bold for strike, especially to fineries of the portraiture and shield, very fine or better thus

Provenance

Spink, by private treaty [ref. 3056], March 1974 (with ticket in hand of Liddell)

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Sold for
£1,200

Starting price
£300