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Auction: 4002 - The Marshall Collection of British & World Coins
Lot: 112

James I, third coinage, Crown, 29.46g., m.m. thistle, king crowned and in armour with a sword over his shoulder, on horseback right, groundline below, crowned rose on housing, rev., square garnished shield, reads qvae devs, colon stops on obverse only (FRC VIII/XIV; N.2120; S.2664), in low relief, toned with hints of blue lustre, good very fine, a very rare mintmark Estimate £ 1,250-1,500 provenance: Spink Numismatic Circular, October 1942, no.16424 £5-10-0 Thistle is very rare as a true mintmark on James I third coinage crowns without Welsh plumes. Cooper noted two obverse dies, VIII and IX (the latter from a unique example in the Ashmolean Museum) and two reverse dies, XIV and XV (the former from a then unique example in the Whitley sale, lot 152), BNJ 1970 p.151. Cooper never owned an example of reverse die XIV. The Whitley specimen was re-offered in the Norweb collection, Spink Auction 59, lot 1430.

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