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Auction: 4018 - The Coinex Auction
Lot: 566

James I (1603-25), third coinage, Crown, 29.80g., 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 surmounted by Welsh plumes, reads qvae devs (FRC dies IX/XVI; N.2121; S.2665), slightly double struck on obverse, very fine, an extremely rare obverse die Estimate £ 1,000-1,250 provenance: Purchased Spink, August 1968 This obverse die was recorded by Cooper, BNJ 1970 p.151, note (j), from a then unique coin in the Ashmolean Museum. This may well be the second known example

Sold for
£1,600