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Auction: 4026 - Ancient, English and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 241

Charles I, Crown, 2.28g., Tower mint, group E, fifth bust, small 'Aberystwyth' style bust with single-arched crown, rev., crowned oval garnished shield, between crowned c r, m.m. anchor (right/upright) (Schneider 266 (same rev. die); N.2188; S.2708), an exceptional example of this type, well struck with a clear portrait, on a full flan, good very fine, extremely rare Estimate £ 600-800 provenance: Spink Numismatic Circular, May 1968, no.3570 Schneider, BNJ 1959 p.391, suggests that rarity of group E crowns is such that the dies were probably given no more than a striking test and subsequently discarded. The examples in the Brooker (227-8) and Schneider (264-6) collections are all struck from a single obverse die. This coin is struck from a different obverse die, which shows the same distinctive broken anchor mintmark

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