CNG 90, Lot: 2604. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

STUART. Charles I. 1625-1649. AV Half Unit – Double Crown (26mm, 4.97 g, 7h). Third (Briot’s) coinage. Class I. Edinburgh mint. Struck 1637-1642. CAR · D : G · MAG · BRIT · FRAN · ET · HIB · REx (lozenge and double lozenge stops throughout), crowned and mantled bust left / · VNITA · TVEMVR ·, square-topped coat-of-arms; crown above; crowned C R across field. Burns 6 (fig. 1035); SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian), 1401-2 (same dies); SCBC 5534. Good VF, toned, a few adjustment marks. Rare.

From the Ian Gordon Collection (purchased from Classical Numismatic Group, 2003). Ex R. C. Lockett Collection (Glendining, 18 June 1957), lot 405.