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Auction: 7023 - The Glenister Collection of British Coins & other Ancient, English & Foreign Coins & Comm Medals
Lot: 503

Charles II, Pattern Crown, 36.05g, 1663, the ´Petition´ Crown by Thomas Simon, large laureate and draped bust of fine style facing right, struck in high relief, signature, simon below, carolvs ii .dei.gra, toothed border both sides, rev. struck en medaille, crowned cruciform shields arranged around insignia of the Order of the Garter, twelve strings to the Irish harp, interlinked c´s in each angle, date either side of crown above English shield, .mag bri.fr et.hib rex.1663 edge inscribed in two lines in raised letters with an upright axis, thomas simon. most. hvmbly. prays. yovr majesty to. compare. this. his. tryall.piece.with.the. dutch.and.if. more/ trvly.drawn. & emboss´d. more.grace:fvlly.order´d.and. more. accvrately. engraven. to.releive.him, two crowned interlinked c´s between branches of palms and laurels at beginning of edge legend (ESC 72; L&S 6; Bergne, NC 1854, p.137, number 2), well struck, small die flaw from c of carolvs, and small straight mark from bust to edge below bust, light hairline scratch in field behind bust and in field on reverse by mag, most attactive, even grey toning, about as struck, extremely rare and one of the most desirable British coins Estimate £ 120,000-150,000 provenance Dr. R Meade, Langford, 11-19 February 1755, lot 38 (£12) E Hodson, collection sold privately S Tysson, Leigh, April-May 1802, lot 3016 (£105) Sir M Sykes, Sotheby, 8-12 March. 1824, lot 367 (£210) D Jones-Long, Sotheby, 17-20 January 1842, lot 401 (£170) J Baker, Sotheby, 1-2 June 1855, lot 53 (£154) G Sparkes, sold privately E. Wigan, sold privately TM Whitehead, Sotheby, 5 May 1898, lot 23 (£168) HC Brunning, Sotheby, 18 March 1908, lot 23 (£155) BA Seaby, sold privately to Mr. Glenister, 8 December 1944

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