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Auction: 5028 - The Samuel King Collection of Highly Important British Gold Coins
Lot: 97

xCharles II, Five Guineas, 1675, larger first laureate bust right, pointed truncation, long hair extending down less with less curls at termination, ties thicker and shorter, carolvs.ii. dei.gratia toothed border both sides, rev. inverted die axis, crowned cruciform shields, frosted inner rings to crowns, eight strings to Irish harp, sceptres in angles, interlinked C´s in centre, date at top, .mag. br.fra. et.hib. rex. edge upright inscription in raised letters .*. decvs . et . tvtamen . anno. regni. vicesimo . septimo.*, (Schneider -; MCE.10; S.3328), weakly struck on French arms and on corresponding part of obverse, otherwise very attractively toned, a pleasing extremely fine and very desirable Estimate £ 6,000-8,000 Glendining, 26 June 1963, lot 3Strauss Collection, Sotheby, 26 May 1994, lot 170

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