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Auction: 3017 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins & Commemorative Medals
Lot: 25

†Charles II, Pattern Crown, 20.39g., 1663, struck in pewter by Thomas Simon, large laureate and draped bust of fine style facing right, struck in high relief, Simon in script below, carolvs ii.dei.gra toothed border both sides, rev.struck en medaille, crowned cruciform shields, twelve strings to Irish harp, Order of the Garter at centre, pair of interlinked C's in each angle, date either side of crown above English shield, .mag bri.fr et.hib rex.Edge, plain (ESC 75 R6; L&S 8; Bergne, Numismatic Chronicle 1854, p.146, no. 1, this coin listed), mint state with full lustre, a superb specimen and of the highest rarity Estimate £ 8,000-10,000 provenance Duke of Devonshire, Christies, 26 March 1874, lot 287 Rev E J Shepherd, Sotheby, 22 July 1885, lot 433 H Montagu, Sotheby, 19 November 1896, lot 840 J G Murdoch, Sotheby, 12 June 1903, lot 674 Dr T Wakley, Sotheby, 6 December 1909, lot 160 Helen Farquhar, Glendinings, 25 April 1955, lot 190 H K Hepburn Wright, collection purchased by Spink and Son, c. 1965 K V Graham, Glendining, 12 June 1963, lot 159 Spink Auction 69, 20 April 1989, lot 308 Stacks, 10 December 1992, lot 4411 Dr Richard Ariagno, Goldberg, 2 June 1999, lot 1811

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