CNG 90, Lot: 2541. Estimate $3000. Sold for $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

STUART. Charles I. 1625-1649. AR Crown (43mm, 29.75 g, 6h). Briot’s First Milled issue. Tower (London) mint under Briot; im: в and flower/в. Milled 1631-1632. CAROLVS · D : G · MAGN · BRITAN · FRAN · ET · HIBER · REX · (lozenge and double lozenge stops throughout), Charles on horseback left, holding reins and raised sword / · CHRISTO · AVSPICE · REGNO ·, garnished coat-of-arms; crown above; crowned C R across field. Brooker 714 (same dies); North 2298; SCBC 2852. Good VF, attractively toned, several minor flan flaws.

From the Ian Gordon Collection. Ex Triton X (8 January 2007), lot 1336; Davisson’s 19 (1 May 2003), lot 182.