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Auction: 24014 - The Alfred Leonard Fuller of Bath Collection of English Silver Coins and Tokens
Lot: 249

James I (1603-1625), Third Coinage, Shilling, 9 June 1621 - 3 July 1623, Tower, (m.m.) • IACOBVS • D : G : MAG : BRI : FRA : ET • HIB : REX • sixth crowned and armoured bust right, XII behind, rev. (m.m.) QVÆ DEVS CONIVNXIT NEMO SEPARET, square-topped shield, bird-headed harp, 5.888g, 8h, m.m. thistle (Montagu III, 215 this coin; North 2124; S.2668), 17th Century personalised graffito 'RW' (Robert Williams perhaps?) before bust, with some peripheral striking softness, otherwise central devices attractively bold and uniform and further accentuated by gloriously fiery orange-blue cabinet tone, a really good very fine thus, and evidently the finest for type that the great numismatist Hyman Montagu could source in his decades of collecting and seemingly limitless funds

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. 48098) - "Mm. Thistle (1621), Large bust. Unusually fine. From the Montagu Cabinet, very fine" - £0.12.6

Hyman Montagu, Third Portion, Sotheby's, 13-20 November 1896, lot 215 [part] - "Shilling...m.m. thistle, mostly fine" - £1.12.0 [Spink]

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£600

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£5