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Auction: 3024 - The Slaney Collection of English Coins
Lot: 34

James I, second coinage, Crown, 29.97g., m.m. lis, king crowned and in armour with a sword over his shoulder, on horseback right, crowned rose on housing, groundline below, reads mag brit fran et hib, rev. square garnished shield, qvae devs conivxit nemo separet (FRC IV/VI; N.2097; S.2652), lightly double struck on king's name, otherwise a magnificent example, crisply struck and toned, extremely fine, very rare thus, one of the finest known Estimate £4,000-5,000 provenance: E Wigan, collection purchased en bloc by Rollin & Feuardent, 1872 Neck, collection incorporated in that of H Webb H Webb, Sotheby, 9 July 1894, lot 352 J G Murdoch, Sotheby, 31 March 1903, lot 749 ("believed to be the finest specimen known") T Wakley, Sotheby, 6 December 1909, lot 23 An example from the same dies, and in comparable condition, was illustrated in BNJ 1970, Plate V, iv and Plate VI, vi. It was sold as lot 21 in the F R Cooper sale, Glendining, 8 November 1978

Sold for
£8,000