CNG 90, Lot: 2606. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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STUART. Charles I. 1625-1649. AR Sixty Shillings (43mm, 29.62 g, 6h). Third (Briot’s) coinage. Class I; im: thistle and в. Edinburgh mint. Struck 1637-1642. CAROLVS · D : G · MAGN · BRITANN · FRANC · ET · HIBERN · REX · (lozenge and double lozenge stops throughout), Charles on horseback left, holding reins and raised sword / QVÆ · DEVS · CONIVNXIT · NEMO · SEPARET ·, garnished square-topped coat-of-arms; crown above. Burns 5 (fig. 1005–same dies); SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian), 1424-6 (same dies); SCBC 5552. VF, toned, fields chased.
From the Ian Gordon Collection. Ex Triton VI (14 January 2003), lot 1487.