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Auction: 3024 - The Slaney Collection of English Coins
Lot: 40

Charles I, Crown, 29.97g., Tower mint, group 3a, m.m. bell, king crowned and in armour holding sword upright, on horseback left, the horse undecorated, reads br fr et hib, rev. oval garnished shield (FRC XV/XX; N.2195; S.2758), a beautiful specimen, deeply toned with underlying lustre, extremely fine, very rare thus Estimate £3,500-4,000 provenance: S Tyssen, Sotheby, 26 April 1802, lot 2191 (?) J B Bergne, Sotheby, 20 May 1873, lot 665 Neck, collection incorporated in that of H Webb H Webb, Sotheby, 9 July 1894, lot 385 H M Lingford, Glendining, 24 October 1950, lot 103 The Tyssen provenance for this coin first appears in the Henry Webb catalogue, 1894. It is not noted in the Bergne catalogue nor in Bergne's own heavily annotated copy of the Tyssen catalogue, so it is not possible to confirm. Samuel Tyssen was the greatest collector of his age and there are many parallels between his style and that of Hyman Montagu a century later. Both were men of great wealth and voracious numismatic appetite who were prepared to lavish whatever resources were required to obtain the best. Both purchased the substantial holdings of rival collectors en bloc by private treaty, disposing of the duplicates, in Tyssen's case by consigning inferior pieces to the furnace. The sale of their collections represented the numismatic high point, in terms of completeness, quality and rarity for their respective generations.

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