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Auction: 24005 - The Official Coinex Auction of Ancient, British and World Coins
Lot: 577

NGC AU | Charles II (1649-1660), Second Hammered Issue, Quarter Unite or Gold Crown, April - October 1662, Tower, (m.m.) CAROLVS • II • D • G • MAG • BRIT • FR • ET • HIB • REX, laureate, draped and cuirassed youthful bust left, X value behind, rev. • FLORENT • CONCORDIA • REGNA •, crowned and lightly garnished over shield, dividing C-R, 2.22g, 12h, i.m. crown (Schneider II, 418 same dies; EGC 162 [dies O1/R1]; North 2758; S.3306), lightly crimped flan and a small scratch before the chest, with hints of a golden-red tone, good very fine and very rare, with a fine pedigree, in NGC holder, graded AU Details ~ Bent (Cert. #8220521-006)

Provenance

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

Margaret Amstell, by private treaty, 3 June 1983 [with her ticket]

R Duncan Beresford-Jones, Spink 29, 2 June 1983, lot 138 - 'a litte creased, otherwise very fine and very rare' - £1,500

H A Parsons, Second Collection, Glendining, 11-13 May 1954, lot 87 - "has been a little buckled, otherwise fine and very rare" - £10.0.0 [Spink for Beresford-Jones]

E Fletcher, Glendining, 13 December 1937, lot 155 - "fine and very rare"

E Gibson, by private treaty with Fletcher

Sir Kenyon Vaughan Morgan, Sotheby's, 17-18 June 1935, lot 161 - "very fine, though a little buckled, a very rare coin" - £4.15.0

A H Baldwin, by private treaty with Vaughan Morgan, 1919

Joseph Young, Sotheby's, 5-7 February 1919, lot 322 - "well preserved and rare" - £4.4.0 [Baldwin]

POSSIBLY
Richard Manley-Foster, Sotheby's, 3 November 1903, lot 129 [part]



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Sold for
£2,500

Starting price
£2000