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Auction: 7018 - Dr R Ferrari English Crowns, R Wilson Scottish Coins, A Louise Irish Coins, K MacKenzie Ottoman Coins & Other Propertie
Lot: 43

James I third coinage, 1619-1625, Crown, 29.45g, m.m. thistle, king, shouldering sword, on horseback right, ground-line below, rev. garnished square shield, colon stops obverse only (N.2120; S.2664), hints of blue lustre, slight weakness at front of horse, otherwise good very fine and a very rare mintmark Estimate £ 1,750-2,000 provenance Spink Numismatic Circular, October 1942, no.16324 £5-0-0 Marshall, Spink auction 167, March 31 2004, lot 112 The thistle is very rare as a true mintmark on James I third coinage crowns without the Welsh plumes. Cooper noted two obverse dies, VIII and IX (the latter from a unique example in the Ashmolean Museum) and two reverse dies, XIV and XV (the former from a then unique example in the Whitley sale, lot 152), BNJ 1970 p.151. Cooper never owned an example of the reverse die XIV. The Whitley specimen was re-offered in the Norweb collection, Spink Auction 59, lot 1430. With Marshall ticket.

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