CNG 87, Lot: 2007. Estimate $3000. Sold for $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SWEDEN. Karl XI. 1660–1697. CU 2½ Öre (47mm, 47.14 g, 6h). Avesta mint. Dated 1661. Crowned coat-of-arms; date and rosettes around / Three crowns; denomination above, rosettes below. Mortensen 329; KM 235. Good VF, warm brown surfaces. Exceptional for issue, very rare as such.

From the HLT Collection. Ex Stockholm/O. P. Eklund Collection (NASCA, 9 December 1980), lot 4093.