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Auction: 25007 - … British and World Coins and Medals featuring The Oriole Collection of Gold and Silver English Coins
Lot: 298

Cromwell, as Lord Protector (1653-1658), Pattern Broad, 1656, by Thomas Simon, Drury House (London), OLIVAR • D • G • R • P • ANG • SCO • ET • HIB &c PRO • laureate and draped bust left, with berries in wreath, rev. 56 • PAX • QVÆRITVR • BELLO • 16, crowned and garnished shield of the Protectorate, edge straight grained, 9.076g, 6h (W&R 39; Schneider II, 367; North 2744; S.3225), some striking weakness to peripheries, and heavier cabinet friction in otherwise attractively lustrous, residually brilliant and handsomely cabinet toned fields, almost extremely fine, a striking example of this extremely sought after one-year issue

Provenance

The Paternoster Collection of Cromwellian Coins

B Dawson, by private treaty with "Paternoster", 1987

Glendining, 24-25 March 1987, lot 553 - £1,000 [Dawson]

Possibly:

Glendining, 31 March 1965, lot 129 - "Small flaw on obverse, otherwise extremely fine"


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Estimate
£15,000 to £25,000

Starting price
£15000