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Auction: 25005 - The Carrington and Pallas Collections of Exceptional English and Anglo-Gallic Gold Coins and Proof Sets
Lot: 159

Charles I (1625-1649), Civil War Issues, Royalist Newark Besieged, Sixpence, 1646, struck in gilt-silver, high-arched crown with jewelled band, dividing C-R, rev. OBS : | NEWARK | 1646 in three lines, 2.67g [41.20grns], 12h, (Brooker 1228; North 2642; S.3146), residual gilding in recesses as originally struck from gilt-silver as sometimes encountered on 1646-dated specie, with some irregularity to flan thickness and soft through the central devices, otherwise edge beading pleasing, good fine, yet rare

Provenance

Baldwin's, by private treaty - £1,950

Randolph Zander, List 186, February 1968, 217

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Sold for
£900

Starting price
£500