Impressive Pedigree

CNG 90, Lot: 2579. Estimate $7500. Sold for $9000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

STUART. Charles I. 1625-1649. AR Crown (42mm, 30.33 g, 3h). Declaration type. Shrewsbury mint. Dated 1642. · CAROLVS : D : G : MAG : BRIT · FRAN · ET · HIBER · REX, Charles on horseback left, holding reins and raised sword; plumes to right / · EXVRGAT · DEVS · DISSIPENTVR · INIMICI, RELIG · PROT · LEG/ANG · LIBER · PAR in two lines between two parallel lines; above, three plumes above ·V·; I642 below. Morrieson, Shrewsbury, dies B/1; Brooker 806 (same dies); North 2370; SCBC 2926. Near EF, toned.

From the Ian Gordon Collection. Ex Triton X (8 January 2007), lot 1340; Edward D. J. Van Roekel Collection (Spink 156, 15 November 2001), lot 51; Glendining (3 May 1978), lot 95; Glendining (19 June 1974), lot 281; S. A. H. Whetmore Collection (Glendining, 14 July 1961), lot 40; H. M. Lingford Collection (Glendining, 24 October 1950), lot 151; Archduke Sigismund Collection (A. Hess, 11 July 1933), lot 467; G. R. Francis Collection (Glendining, 24 March 1920), lot 286; Joseph Young Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 5 February 1919), lot 299 (part of, with a Shrewsbury Halfcrown of 1642, the two of which sold for £5/10/-).