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Auction: 3024 - The Slaney Collection of English Coins
Lot: 46

Charles I, Pattern Shilling, 6.41g., Tower mint, pattern for group D, m.m. rose (struck during the currency of group C), large bust of king wearing armour and soft falling lace collar, carolvs d g mag brit fra et hib rex, rev. oval garnished shield with cr at sides, christo avspice regno, no inner circles (Sharp p.110; N.2697), pattern on an exceptionally full flan, with a smoky grey tone over deep underlying lustre, in mint state, excessively rare, one of two known Estimate £3,000-4,000 provenance: B Bartlett, Gerard, 25 April 1787, lot 52 (sixth day) S Tyssen, 12 April 1802, lot 2910 Lieut. Col. W Durrant, Sotheby, 19 April 1847, lot 597 J B Bergne, Sotheby, 20 May 1873, lot 847 S Addington, collection purchased en bloc by H Montagu, 1883 H Montagu, Sotheby, 13 November 1896, lot 365 J G Murdoch, Sotheby, 8 June 1903, lot 302 Cumberland Clark, Sotheby, 22 January 1914, lot 185 O Fitch, collection purchased en bloc by Spink, c.1918 Dr E C Carter, collection purchased en bloc by Baldwin, 1950 The only other recorded specimen was also owned by Montagu. It is more sharply struck than this example but weak in parts and was sold in the Montagu duplicate sale, 7 May 1888, lot 363. It was, most recently, listed in Spink Numismatic Circular, November 1987, no. 6462

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