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Auction: 25007 - … British and World Coins and Medals featuring The Oriole Collection of Gold and Silver English Coins
Lot: 293

Charles I (1625-1649), Civil War Issues, Siege of Pontefract, 'Lozenge' Shilling, 1648, Type II, DVM : SPIRO : SPERO, crowned smaller CR, rev. castle gateway, OBS upwards in left, value dividing PC, date below, 4.96g [76.54grns], 12h (Brooker 1233 this coin; Hird 276-128; North 2647; S.3149), small metal flaw to obverse 12 o'clock, otherwise a most pleasing and uniform striking, cabinet toned, good very fine, rare in this exemplary state and with an auspicious pedigree

Provenance


R Richardson, by private treaty, March 2011 [with his ticket]


Spink 1009, 25 March 2010, lot 88 - 'mark on top of obverse otherwise a pleasing example, good very fine, rare' [Richardson]


Spink 58, 30 April 1987, lot 101 - 'nearly extremely fine and rare' - £980 [Goddard]


J G Brooker, Sylloge 1233, dispersed by Spink, from 1978


H H Snellenburg, collection purchased en bloc by Spink, 1965


V J E Ryan, Part II, Glendining, 22 January 1952, lot 1347*, 'very fine and rare




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Estimate
£4,000 to £5,000

Starting price
£3500