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Auction: 25007 - … British and World Coins and Medals featuring The Oriole Collection of Gold and Silver English Coins
Lot: 310

Cromwell, as Lord Protector (1653-1658), "Dutch Copy" Sixpence, 1658 [1738], by John Sigismund Tanner at the Royal Mint (London), his so-called 'Pattern Ninepence', after Thomas Simon, on a thick silver planchet, OLIVAR • D • G R • P • ANG • SCO • HIB • PRO, laureate and draped bust left, no berries in wreath, no &c before PRO, rev. 58 PAX • QVÆRITVR • BELLO 16, crowned and garnished shield of the Protectorate, edge plain mint filed, 6.150g [94.909grns] 6h (Henfrey, Pl. IV, 4 and p. 146 [2 Listed of this weight]; Tyssen [1802], 3012b = Lt.-Col. Durrant [1847] = E Rashleigh [1909], 1022; Wigan = Halliburton-Young 306 = Moon 284 = Property of a Gentleman, 24 June 1910, 114 = Maish 380; Sotheby's, 20-22 December 1892, lot 297 = Dr Steele [1894], 90 - £10.5.0 = Bliss 488* - £3.3.0 = Glendining, 17 July 1962, lot 62* = Norweb II, 432* [96.5grns]; Marsham-Townshend [1888], = Clark [1898], 344* - £15.10.0; Brice = Montagu II, 730* [96.5grns]; Norweb IV, 1465; ESC 1506; N.2748 ii; Bull 263 [R4]; Lessen M41; S.3229A), with a pleasingly balanced and old cabinet tone, extremely fine, and equally rare, with a remarkable pedigree through the curated cabinets of Raynes (1950); Clarke-Thornhill (1937); Wheeler (1931); Boileau Graham (1920); Murdoch (1903); Egmont Bieber (1889) and Major-General Yorke-Moore (1879)

Provenance

The Paternoster Collection of Cromwellian Coins

The Inventory of Geoffrey Hearn




Glendining, 14 October 1964, lot 404* - "AR Cromwell Pattern Ninepence, 1658, by Tanner, Extremely fine, very rare; ex Bieber and Thornhill" - £150.0.0 [Hearn]



William Luard Raynes, Glendining, 15 February 1950, lot 551* - "weight 95 grains, edge plain. Extremely fine and very rare; ex Bieber, Murdoch and Wheeler Collections" - £10.10.0



Thomas Bryan Clarke-Thornhill, First Portion, Glendining, 24 May 1937, lot 595* - "edge plain. wt. 93grs. extremely fine and very rare; ex Bieber collection" - £9.5.0



Seaby FPL EH157, 6 February 1931, EH193 - "brilliant and very rare. From the Yorke-Moore (£6.6.0); Bieber (£14.0.0) and Murdoch (£8.0.0) collections" - £7.10.0



Ernest Wheeler, collection privately part-purchased by Seaby after his disastrous first public sale at Glendining's in March 1930



Thomas Henry Boileau Graham, collection dispersed of bequeathed to the British Museum, 1920



~ T H B Graham, 'Cromwell's Silver Coinage', Numismatic Chronicle, 1908, pp. 62-79 - this coin listed ~



Messrs Spink & Son, by private treaty with Thomas Henry Boileau Graham, Summer 1906



Spink Numismatic Circular, June 1906, no. 27781 - "Ninepence, 1658, by Tanner. Weight. 93 grains. Exceedingly rare of this weight. F.D.C." - £15.0.0



Spink Numismatic Circular, April 1905, no. 14671 - wt. 93 grs - EF - £18.0.0



J G Murdoch, Second Portion, Sotheby's, 8 June 1903, lot 474 - "wt. 95grs, very fine and very rare" - £8.0.0



G W Egmont Bieber, Sotheby's, 13 May 1889, lot 248 - "Ninepence, 1658, similar type, but without the “ &c.” after HIB. and with plain edge, very fine and very rare" - £14.0.0 [Spink]



Major-General William Yorke-Moore, Sotheby's, 21-23 April 1879, lot 249 - "Cromwell Pattern Ninepence, 1658, usual legends and types, but without &c. after HIB., fine and rare" - £6.6.0 [Bieber]




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Estimate
£6,000 to £10,000

Starting price
£6000