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Auction: 24014 - The Alfred Leonard Fuller of Bath Collection of English Silver Coins and Tokens
Lot: 244

James I (1603-1625), Third Coinage, Welsh 'Plumes', Crown, 18 June 1624 - 7 July 1625, Tower, (m.m.) IACOBVS Ð : G : MAG : BRI : FRAN : ET HIB : REX, D over E (?), King on horseback trotting right, grassy ground line below, rev. (m.m.) QVÆ DEVS CONIVNXIT NEMO SEPARET, no stops in legend, smaller square-topped and lightly garnished shield, plume above, 29.630g, 5h, m.m. trefoil over lys [both sides] (Hawkins 465; Rev. E J Shepherd [1885], 313 = Montagu 198* same dies; Thorburn [1887], 126 = Murdoch [1903], 755 = Barron [1906], 17* = Lt.-Col. T G Taylor = Lingford 67 = Hopetoun House, 312 = Inveruglas 4440 = Karon 72 same dies; FRC X*/XIX* [Sale, lot 36]; North 2121; S.2665), a trace of doubling, otherwise lightly cabinet toned and residually lustrous, a pleasing and wholesome very fine, the fields entirely problem-free, rare, especially in this condition

Provenance

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

Acquired from Messrs Spink & Son, 10 February 1898 - £4.10.0

Spink Numismatic Circular, February 1898 (P.2604, no. 43166) - "Mm. trefoil. BRI : King on horseback as before. Rev. QVÆ DEVS &c. Square-topped shield, with large plume issuing from crown above. Hks. 465. A rare type and a choice specimen, toned, rare, very fine" - £4.10.0

Holton Park, Sotheby's, 10-12 May 1897, lot 85 - "James I Crown, m.m. trefoil, rev. QVÆ DEVS &c., Plumes over shield on reverse, fine and uncommon - £1.19.0 [Spink]


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