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Auction: 5028 - The Samuel King Collection of Highly Important British Gold Coins
Lot: 79

xCharles I, Triple-unite, 26.65g., Oxford, 1644, on smaller module, large crowned bust of fine work left breaking inner circle, in armour, holding sword and olive branch, plume behind, reads MAG BRI FRA ET HI, rev. declaration RELIG:PROT :LEG:ANG: LIBER:PAR: in three lines on continuous scroll, value and three small plumes above, 1644 OXON below, m.m. small plume on obverse only (B-J dies VII/S11; Schneider 303 (same dies); N.2385; S.2729), slightly double struck on obverse, otherwise an imposing portrait coin, on an unusually full flan for this issue, good very fine, very rare Estimate £ 10,000-12,000 PROVENANCE:A W Hankin, Sotheby, 29 March 1900, lot 333E K Burstal, Sotheby, 6 November 1912, lot 161V M Brand (d. 1926), collection widely dispersed from 1932Spink Auction 107, 22 November 1994, lot 77

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