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Auction: 24005 - The Official Coinex Auction of Ancient, British and World Coins
Lot: 576

NGC AU58 | Scotland, Charles I (1625-1649), Third Coinage, Type I, Unit, by Nicholas Briot, CAROLVS • D : G • MAG • BRITAN • FRAN • ET • HIB • REX • (m.m), half-length King right, wearing ornate armour, holding orb and sceptre, rev. HIS • PRÆSVM • VT • PROSIM •, crowned shield, dividing cypher, 6h, 9.92g, i.m. thistle and B (SCBI 35 [Ashmolean], 1392 same dies; S.5531), faintly scratched before the face, the reverse struck from very lightly rusted dies, with a rich golden-red hue and lustre, extremely fine, and a truly wholesome and deeply attractive example of this ever popular 'fine-work' 17th Century Briot coinage, in NGC holder, strictly graded AU58 (Cert. #8220521-013)

Provenance

The "Estafefette No. 21" Collection of Ancient, English and World Coins

Margaret Amstell, by private treaty, 1 July 1990 [with her ticket]



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Sold for
£16,000

Starting price
£7000