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Auction: 392 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale at NY INC
Lot: 142

Charles II (1660-1685), Pattern Broad, 1662, by Thomas Simon, CAR: II D: G: M • BR • FR ET HI REX, laureate draped and cuirassed bust left, nine leaves in wreath, with berries, no artist's initial below, rev. FLORENT CONCORDIA REGNA, crowned squared-topped shield, edge plain, 9.07g, 6h (BNJ, Lessen G2/3; Schneider II, 421; EGC 165 [R3]; North 2780; Spink 3337A), light smoothing in reverse fields where traces of pawnbroker's graffito, otherwise pleasingly original with residual brilliance in recesses, a handsomely bold very fine, only 3,400 struck; this an extremely rare variety only posited to exist by Lessen

Provenance

The Sanders Collection of Early Milled Coins, Noonans 277, 19 July 2023, lot 257

Spink Numismatic Circular, January 1956, no. 339 - "scarce, very fine/extremely fine" - £14.10.0 [by private treaty with Sanders]

Sold for
$5,000

Starting price
$6000