CNG 100, Lot: 1074. Estimate $4000. Sold for $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

COMMONWEALTH. Oliver Cromwell. Lord Protector, 1653-1658. AV Broad (30mm, 9.10 g, 6h). Dies by Simon. Blondeau’s mint, Drury House, London. Dated 1656. OLIVAR · D · G · R · P · ANG · SCO · HIB · &c PRO ·, laureate head left / · PAX · QVÆRITVR · BELLO · 16 56, crowned coat-of-arms. Lessen A2; W&R 39; Schneider 367; North 2744; SCBC 3225. Good VF, neatly pierced and plugged at 12 o’clock on obverse.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from Mark Teller, March 1984.