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Auction: 5028 - The Samuel King Collection of Highly Important British Gold Coins
Lot: 88

xOliver Cromwell, Pattern Broad or Twenty Shillings, 1656, 9.08g., by Thomas Simon, laureate head left, olivar.d.g. r. p.ang.sco.et hib &c pro., rev. inverted die axis, crowned shield of the Protectorate, pax.qvaeritvr.bello. 1656, nine strings to Irish harp; edge straight grained, (Schneider 367; Lessen A2; N.2744; S.3225; W&R.39 R2), reverse slightly struck off-centre, lightly hairlined with considerable brilliance, nearly extremely fine Estimate £ 6,000-8,000

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