CNG 100, Lot: 2274. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

STUART. Charles II. 1660-1685. AR Crown (39mm, 30.01 g, 6h). Milled coinage. Tower (London) mint. Dually dated RY tricesimo secundo and 1680. Laureate and draped bust right / Crowned cruciform coats-of-arms around rayed Garter Star; interlocking Cs in quarters. ESC 60; SCBC 3359. Near EF, light gray and iridescent blue toning, struck from a worn obverse die. Rare. Lot includes old Seaby ticket.

Ex Lord Hamilton of Dalzell Collection (Spink 3, 21 February 1979) lot 38 (purchased from Spink, January 1952); Dr. E.C. Carter Collection (purchased en bloc by Baldwin’s, 1950).