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Auction: 24006 - British and World Coins
Lot: 163

NGC XF45 | Charles I (1625-1649), Civil War Issues, Siege of Royalist Scarborough, Shilling, Type III, ["Beeston Castle"], Besieged (July 1644 - July 1645), [Spink XRF: 92.86% Ag; 6.64% Cu; 0.501% Pb], 5.962g [92.0grns], 1.5 x 25.595 x 27.85mm (Snelling [1762], Pl. 15, no. 4; Ruding [1817], Pl. XXIX, no. 1; Philip Nelson, 'The Obsidional Money of the Great Rebellion', pp. 305-306, Fig. 12 [Beeston]; Brooker -; North 2652[g]; S.3175), with an exemplary pedigree through the Agricola (1988); Clonterbrook (1974); Lockett (1958); Brand (1935); Bliss (1916); Webb (1894) and Honourable Robert Marsham-Townshend (1888) cabinets, in NGC holder, graded XF 45 (Cert. #8220534-001)

Provenance

Sharman, by private treaty, 1988

[R S James], Spink 63, 28-29 March 1988, lot 357 - "rim of plate visible on reverse, very fine and of the highest rarity" - £4,000 [Sharman]

The "Agricola" Collection [R S James], Spink 31, 12 October 1983, lot 233 - "92.0grns, rim of plate visible on reverse, very fine and of the highest rarity" [unsold]

The "Clonterbrook" Trust [G D Lockett], Baldwin-Glendining, 7 June 1974, lot 261* - "struck on a rectangular flan with bevelled corners, a rim pattern of the plate apparent on the reverse, very fine and excessively rare" - £3,600

R C Lockett, Part VII ~ English III, Glendining, 4-6 November 1958, lot 3533* - "formerly attributed to Beeston Castle, very fine and extremely rare" - £340.0.0 [Baldwin for Clonterbrook]

~ R C Lockett, Manuscript, Part 24, p. 17, no. 2582 this coin ~

A H Baldwin, by private treaty with R C Lockett - £90.0.0

Burdette G Johnson, Agent for the Brand Executors, by private treaty with A H Baldwin, April 1935

Virgil M Brand (Inventory #80102), collection dispersed from 1932

T Bliss, Sotheby's, 22-25 March and 15-19 May 1916, lot 459* - "Beeston. Shilling, octagonal (Rud. xxix, 1), castle, with tower at each wing, and a gateway in centre, beaded border at sides, and below, 1S , plain rev., but shewing impress of obv., fine and extremely rare" - £35.10.0 [Spink for Brand]

H Webb, First Portion, Sotheby's, 9-14 July 1894, lot 595 - "fine, and extremely rare" - £25.0.0 [Bliss]

William John Webster, by private treaty with Henry Webb Senior, 1888

Hon. Robert Marsham-Townshend, Sotheby's, 19-26 November 1888, lot 669 - "fine and extremely rare" - £30.0.0 [Webster]



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Estimate
£15,000 to £20,000

Starting price
£15000