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Auction: 3024 - The Slaney Collection of English Coins
Lot: 48

Charles I, Shilling, 6.27g., Tower mint under Parliament, group G, type 4.4, m.m. eye, sixth bust, bust 2, cruder Briot style bust with widespread double-arched crown, collar with large stellate lace border, reads bri fra et hib, rev. cross moline over square shield (Sharp G2/2; N.2232; S.2843), two tiny edge nicks at 6 o'clock, otherwise an exceptionally sharp full round specimen with a strong portrait, extremely rare in this condition, probably the finest known Estimate £1,250-1,500 provenance: Rev. E J Shepherd, Sotheby, 22 July 1885, lot 332 (part) H Webb, Sotheby, 9 July 1894, lot 429 ("the only fine example of this type known") H Montagu, Sotheby, 13 November 1896, lot 340 ("probably the finest specimen known") J G Murdoch, Sotheby, 8 June 1903, lot 223 O Fitch, collection purchased en bloc by Spink, c.1918 Dr E C Carter, collection purchased en bloc by Baldwin, 1950 The link between Murdoch, lot 223, and Oswald Fitch is, as with the last lot, probable but not absolutely certain. Dr Carter annotated an earlier, Spink (?), ticket noting that this specimen is the finest known and Spink were indeed the purchasers of Murdoch, lot 223. The auction record contains no other Parliament shilling, mintmark eye, in a condition approaching that of this specimen

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