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Auction: 24005 - The Official Coinex Auction of Ancient, British and World Coins
Lot: 328

The L'Abbaye Collection: Part Two | Charles II (1660-1685), "Welsh Plumes" Shilling, 1674, CAROLVS • II • - DEI • GRATIA, second laureate and draped bust right, plume below bust, rev. no stop after HIB, crowned shields cruciform, seven strings to harp, interlocking Cs in angles, plume at centre, edge obliquely milled, 6h (Pywell-Phillips 63; ESC 1040 [R2]; Bull 526 [R2]; S.3376), lightly cleaned and darkly retoned with a die flaw through portrait, otherwise attractively struck up for issue with hints on natural lustre in recesses, a bolder very fine

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

St James's 5, 27 September 2006, lot 354


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