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Auction: 3024 - The Slaney Collection of English Coins
Lot: 11

James I, second coinage, Unite, 10.00g., second bust, crowned half-length bust to right in elaborately decorated armour, holding orb and sceptre, reads mag brit fran et hib, rev. crowned square-topped shield with i r at sides, faciam eos in gentem vnam, m.m. lis (c.f. Schneider 22; N.2083; S.2618), a beautiful specimen, in mint state, rare in this condition Estimate £2,000-2,250 provenance: S Alchorne, Sotheby, 11 May 1848 J B Bergne, Sotheby, 20 May 1873, lot 643 W Brice, collection purchased en bloc by H Montagu, 1887 H Montagu, Sotheby, 13 November 1896, lot 145 Yates-Thompson, collection purchased by Spink, c.1920 Col. T G Taylor, collection purchased by Spink, 1936 V J E Ryan, Glendining, 28 June 1950, lot 368

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