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Auction: 24004 - British and World Coins and Medals Spring Auction
Lot: 136

Commonwealth (1649-1660), Five-Shilling Piece, Quarter-Unite or Gold Crown, 1649, Tower, • THE • COMMONWEALTH • OF • ENGLAND •, coat of arms of England, rev. • GOD • WITH • VS •, conjoined shields of England and Ireland, no flanking stops by large V above, m.m. sun, 2.18g [33.6grns], 8h (Schneider II, 357 different dies; EGC 53 [R4] this coin illustrated; Lockett 3538; North 2719; Spink 3212), small striking flaws in fields on reverse, otherwise struck on a broad flan with die capping to peripheries, reddish tones, a pleasingly good very fine / very fine, the seminal year of the Commonwealth very rare (either in gold or silver) and with a distinguished pedigree, unencapsulated, with NGC Ticket, graded AU58 (Cert. #5880621-006)

Provenance

Sovereign Rarities, by private treaty (ref. BM02070), 2021

New York Sale LIII, 14 January 2021, lot 3137 - wherein graded NGC AU58 [unsold]

NGSA Auction 10, 3 December 2018, lot 250 - "très bel exemplaire" CHF8,000 [Goldbart]

A H Baldwin, by private treaty, 2014

D J Tisbury, "Collection of Commonwealth Gold Coins: The Property of a Gentleman", Spink 217, 26-27 June 2013, lot 666 - £6,800

Bowers & Merena, 9-11 September 1985, lot 3545 - "choice, about uncirculated, one of the nicest examples of this type we have seen"




https://www.ngccoin.com/certlookup/5880621-006/58/


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Sold for
£5,500

Starting price
£5500