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Auction: 24005 - The Official Coinex Auction of Ancient, British and World Coins
Lot: 335

The L'Abbaye Collection: Part Two | Charles II (1660-1685), 'Mule' "Welsh Plumes" Shilling, 1677, 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, Garter star at centre, edge obliquely milled, 6h (Pywell-Phillips -; ESC 1051 [R4]; Bull 541 [R4]; S.3378), softly struck on hair and adjustment marks to French shield, otherwise lightly toned and lustrous, with attractive reddish-orange hues in peripheries, a pleasingly good very fine, extremely rare, especially in this exemplary state and far finer than the Lord Hamilton of Dalzell specime!

Provenance

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

Spink 55, 8 October 1986, lot 152* - "extremely rare and better than very fine" - £460

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Sold for
£5,500

Starting price
£1800