Ex Karon, and Lockett Collections
Pedigreed to 1913

Triton XIX, Lot: 958. Estimate $7500. Sold for $7500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

STUART. James I. 1603-1625. AR Crown (43mm, 29.93 g, 7h). Third coinage. Transitional type. Tower (London) mint; im: thistle over rose. Struck circa 1621. (thistle over ose) IACOBVS · D : G : MAG : BRIT : FRAN : ET · HIB : REX ·, James on horseback right, holding sword over right shoulder; horse with crowned rose on caparison / (thistle over rose) · QVÆ · DEVS · CONIVNXIT · NEMO · SEPARET ·, garnished coat-of-arms. Cooper, James I dies OVII*/RXIII*; North 2120; SCBC 2664. Near EF, toned, minor edge split. Extremely rare – only three recorded by Cooper.

Ex Stack’s (24 April 2008), lot 35; Paul W. Karon Collection (Spink 129, 17 November 1998), lot 70; Richard Cyrill Lockett Collection (English Part II, Glendining, 11 October 1956), lot 2139; Sir Kenyon Vaughn Morgan Collection (Sotheby’s, 17 June 1935), lot 198; Ex Grant Francis Collection (Glendining, 24 March 1920), lot 68; W. Dash (Sotheby, Wilkinson, & Hodge, 9 May 1913), lot 19.

This extremely rare variety features the thistle initial mark struck over the earlier rose, both used only during the Third coinage, but with the legend stops of the Second coinage.