Impressive Triple Unite from Rashleigh

CNG 90, Lot: 2588. Estimate $75000. Sold for $80000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

STUART. Charles I. 1625-1649. AV Triple Unite (42mm, 26.73 g, 6h). Declaration type. Oxford mint; im: plumes/-. Dated 1644. CAROLVS · D : G : MAG : BRI : FRA : ET · HIBER : REX ·, crowned and mantled bust left, holding sword and laurel branch; plumes to right / EXVRGAT · DEVS · DISSIPENTVR · INIMICI :·: (continuing into inner field) RELIG : PROT/: LEG : ANG :/LIBER PAR; above, three plumes above III; below, ·I644· above ·OXON·. Brooker 841 (same dies); Schneider 303 (same dies); North 2385; SCBC 2729. Near EF, attractive light red toning with underlying luster. Rare.

From the Ian Gordon Collection. Ex Sotheby’s (20 April 1993), lot 61; Evelyn W. Rashleigh Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 21 June 1909), lot 878.