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Auction: 5028 - The Samuel King Collection of Highly Important British Gold Coins
Lot: 68

xJames I, third coinage, Half-laurel, 4.53g., fourth bust, small laureate bust left, mark of value behind, reads FRA ET HIB, rev. long cross fleury over small crowned square shield, reads IACOB, m.m. trefoil (c.f. Schneider 92; N.2117; S.2641A), rather scratched on portrait, on a small flan, about very fine Estimate £ 300-350 The reverse inner circle on this coin is of unusually wide diameter, giving the impression that the shield is abnormally small

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