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Auction: 24005 - The Official Coinex Auction of Ancient, British and World Coins
Lot: 323

The L'Abbaye Collection: Part Two | Charles II (1660-1685), "Welsh Plumes" Shilling, 1671, CAROLVS • II • - DEI • GRATIA, second laureate and draped bust right, plume below bust, rev. no stop after HIB, crowned shields cruciform, five strings to harp, interlocking Cs in angles, plume at centre, edge obliquely milled, 6h (Pywell-Phillips 60; ESC 1035 [R2]; Bull 520 [R2]; S.3376), softly struck on hair, otherwise vibrantly cabinet toned with underlying residual brilliance, on a broad flan, a superb example with great eye appeal, a pleasingly good very fine, very rare in this impressive state, the devices on par with the recent record-breaking Cope specimen

Provenance

The L'Abbaye Collection of Early Milled Shillings: Part Two

Glendining, 1 October 1997, lot 134 - "good surfaces and rims, an excellent example of this very rare type, and probably among the finest known"

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