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Auction: 5028 - The Samuel King Collection of Highly Important British Gold Coins
Lot: 77

xCharles I, Triple-unite, 26.66g., Oxford, 1643, artistic crowned half-length bust of king left, in armour with scarf flying from shoulder, holding sword and olive branch, plume behind, reads MAGN BRIT FR ET HI, rev. declaration RELIG:PROT: LEG:.:ANGL: LIBER:PAR. in three lines on scroll, value and three plumes above, date below, m.m. Oxford plume on obverse only (B-J V/S5; Schneider 291 (same dies); N.2383; S.2383), slightly double struck, as often with this type, on a very large flan, in virtual mint state, with subtle underlying violet lustre, almost extremely fine, very rare. Estimate £ 12,000-15,000 PROVENANCE:C T Weihman, Stack´s, October 1951, lot 174J J Pitman, David Akers Numismatics, Inc., 6 August 1999, lot 3739

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