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Auction: 24014 - The Alfred Leonard Fuller of Bath Collection of English Silver Coins and Tokens
Lot: 234

James I (1603-1625), Second Coinage, Shilling, 12 May 1610 - 9 May 1611, Tower, (m.m.) • IACOBVS • D .' G .' MAG .' BRIT .' FRA .' ET • HIB .' REX • fifth crowned and armoured bust right, XII behind, rev. (m.m.) QVÆ • DEVS • CONIVNXIT • NEMO • SEPARET, square-topped shield, 6.071g, 2h, m.m. bell (Oddie & Thompson P32-P35/- [O19] same obverse die, reverse die unlisted; North 2101; S.2656), a hint of striking softness to extremities, otherwise a delightful and wholesome example of this notoriously difficult coinage, truly good very fine for type with accentuations of purplish-blue lustre to peripheries and fiery-orange to shield, rare thus and a fitting cabinet piece considered choice enough for the legendary 19th Century numismatist Hyman Montagu yet unseen to public commerce since September 1898!

Provenance

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

Acquired from Messrs Spink & Son, 1 September 1898 - £0.12.6

Spink Numismatic Circular, September 1898 (P.2984, no. 48094) - "Mm. Bell (1610), Rare mm. From the Montagu Collection, fine" - £0.12.6

Hyman Montagu, Third Portion, Sotheby's, 13-20 November 1896, lot 212 [part] - "...also Shilling, with m.m. bell, usual types, very well preserved" - £0.13.0 [Cash]

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