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Auction: 25007 - … British and World Coins and Medals featuring The Oriole Collection of Gold and Silver English Coins
Lot: 299

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, 9.026g, 6h (Lessen A2; W&R 39; Schneider II, 367; Stratos 72; North 2744; S.3225), surfaces lightly brushed and bright, otherwise a pleasingly bold very fine, and thus a covetable and affordable example of this impressive British numismatic cabinet centrepiece

Provenance

The Paternoster Collection of Cromwellian Coins

SCMB, February 1984, GG24 - "good VF, faint sign of scratch by head on obv." - £4,100



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Estimate
£10,000 to £12,000

Starting price
£10000