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Auction: 24014 - The Alfred Leonard Fuller of Bath Collection of English Silver Coins and Tokens
Lot: 231

James I (1603-1625), Second Coinage, Shilling, 21 June 1605 - 10 July 1606, Tower, (m.m.) • IACOBVS • D .' G .' MA[G .' BRI]T .' FRA .' ET • H[IB] .' REX • fourth crowned and armoured bust right, XII behind, rev. (m.m.) • QVÆ • DEVS • CONIVNXIT • NEMO • SEPARET • square-topped shield, plain harp, 6.010g, 10h, m.m. rose (North 2100; S.2655), peripheral striking softness, otherwise on a neat round flan with attractive purplish-grey cabinet toning, the fineries of the Jacobean hairline beautifully expressed, a most pleasing very fine, scarcely encountered so well struck on these features and current at the time of Guido Fawkes' failed assassination attempt on the King and Parliament!

Provenance

The Alfred Leonard Fuller of Bath Collection (1870-1941)

Acquired from Messrs Spink & Son, 1 September 1898 - £0.7.6

Spink Numismatic Circular, September 1898 (P.2984, no. 48086) - "Mm. rose (1605), very fine" - £0.7.6



NB. Despite arriving at Spink's premises on the very date of September's Circular release, no. 48085, a similar piece from the Montagu collection priced at £0.10.0 was unavailable despite being perfectly within Mr Fuller's budget. This provides a wonderful insight into the early collector "buzz" generated by the Numismatic Circular, and perhaps also the now lost art-form of reserving and purchasing by telegram or through Spink's still rather new telephone switchboard!

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Sold for
£180

Starting price
£5