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Auction: 24005 - The Official Coinex Auction of Ancient, British and World Coins
Lot: 296

Charles I (1625-1649), Pattern Crown, c. 1628, by Nicholas Briot, Tower, (m.m.) CAROLVS • D: G • MAG • BRITANNIÆ • FRAN • ET • HIB • REX • FIDEI • DEFENSOR, bare-headed cuirassed and draped bust left, wearing falling lace collar, within beaded inner circle, rev. HAVD • VLLI • VETERVM • VIRTVTE • SECVNDVS • King on horseback to left, holding upright sword, ground under horse, and •B• under its raised off fore-foot, no inner circle, [Spink XRF: 91.47% Ag; 5.24% Cu; 27.729g [427.92grns], 6h, m.m. anemone [on obv. only] (cf. Snelling Pl. VI, no. 7 for reverse; Farquhar, PI. XIII, No. 1 same dies; Brooke, p. 235; Brooker 1248 = Selig 216 same dies; North 2670), deft bruising to rims, otherwise pleasantly cabinet toned, a bolder very fine to bordering on extremely fine in parts, EXCESSIVELY RARE, one of only five known specimens, this long-considered the finest known until the surfacing of the Wigan example in 1872; nevertheless with an OUTSTANDING unbroken pedigree through the Willis, Butters, Lothian, Nightingale, Braunstein, Bliss, Moon, Montagu, Addington, Brown and Marshall Cabinets

Provenance

R Richardson, by private treaty (ref. 3186)

R Richardson, by private treaty (ref. 3853), 12 March 2013

Simon Willis, collection purchased en bloc by Richardson, 5 March 2011

R Richardson, by private treaty (ref. 2291) to Willis, 18 June 2008

Rowley Butters, SJA 9, 18 June 2008, lot 326* - "a most attractive piece with a wonderful pedigree, almost extremely fine, extremely rare" - £17,000 [Richardson]

M R Roberts (Sydney, NSW), by private treaty [ref. C1-B101], with Butters - aEF/EF - AU$17,000

D Louloukakis [Chelsea Coins], by private treaty with Roberts

Walter Lothian, Spink 62, 19 November 1987, lot 22 [and COVER] - £5,100 [Chelsea Coins]

A H Baldwin, by private treaty with Lothian

"An Important Collection of English Crown Pieces in Choice Condition: The Property of a Gentleman Collector", Sotheby's, 18 March 1970, lot 246 - "some edge knocks, strictly fine but excessively rare and few specimens known" - £1,200.0.0 [Baldwin]

F B Nightingale, F.R.I.B.A, Glendining, 24 October 1951, lot 61* - "m.m. flower on obv. only, obv. bust to left, rev. Charles I on horseback to left; a small .B. in field by raised off-forehoof, almost extremely fine and excessively rare" - £98.0.0

"A Choice Collection of Crowns" ["Colonel R L Braunstein"], Glendining, 22 June 1948, lot 40 - "very fine and extremely rare. From the Bliss Sale, May 1916" - £160.0.0 [Spink for Nightingale]

~ In the Spink Library, the following note is appended to this lot description: Ex Marshall (1852), Brown (1869); Addington (1883); Montagu (1888). At Bliss we bought for Braunstein." Spink handled three commission bidders for this lot, A E Bagnall for £15.0.0; RGL for £150.0.0 and the eventual winning bidder Nightingale, who left a stupendous commission bid of £350.0.0!~

Thomas Bliss, Sotheby's, 22 March 1916, lot 397* - "very fine and of excessive rarity, one of the finest known" - £20.0.0 [Spink for Braunstein]

~ Exhibited by Mr Thomas Bliss at the Regular Meeting of the Royal Numismatic Society, 17 October 1901 ~

J E Moon, Sotheby's, 7-10 May 1901, lot 205* - "very fine and excessively rare, one of the finest known" - £61.0.0 [Verity for Bliss]

H Montagu, Third Duplicate Sale, Sotheby's, 7-11 May 1888, lot 360* - "an excessively rare piece by Briot, and said to have been the finest known" - £62.0.0 [Verity for Moon]

~ Exhibited by Mr Hyman Montagu at the Regular Meeting of the Royal Numismatic Society, 17 January 1884 (cf. NumChron, 1884, pp. 7-8) ~

Samuel Addington, collection purchased en bloc by Montagu, 1883

Thomas Brown, Sotheby's, 14 February 1869, lot 555 - "extremely fine and of considerable value" - £43.0.0 [Addington]

with the additional post-script: "a price below its value, on account of its high degree of rarity and preservation, probably the best known"

George Marshall, First Portion, Sotheby's, 4 March 1852, lot 467 - "this coin is nearly as fine as the one in the Durrant Cabinet which sold for £58.0.0." - £44.10.0 [Dantziger for Brown]

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Sold for
£42,000

Starting price
£20000