Unique Pedigreed Piedfort Sixpence of Charles I

CNG 88, Lot: 2047. Estimate $7500. Sold for $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

STUART. Charles I. 1625-1649. Piedfort AR Sixpence (26mm, 5.87 g, 11h). Group D, type 3. Tower (London) mint; im: harp. Struck 1632-1633. · CAROLVS · D’ · G’ · MAG’ · BRI’ · FR’ · ET · HIB’ · REX ·, fourth bust left, crowned and mantled; VI (denomination) to right / · CHRISTO AVSPICE REGNO ·, garnished coat-of-arms; C R across field. Brooker 606 (this coin); cf. North 2240 (regular issue); cf. SCBC 2811 (same). VF, toned. Unique.

Ex John Godfrey Brooker Collection, no. 606; Richard Cyril Lockett Collection (Part VII, Glendining, 4 November 1958), lot 3432 (includes original ticket); Henry Webb Collection (Part I, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 9 July 1894), lot 440; John Edward Makon ‘Jem’ Rishton Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 13 July 1875), lot 71.