Triton XIX, Lot: 959. Estimate $5000. Sold for $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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STUART. Charles I. 1625-1649. AR Crown (42mm, 30.02 g, 11h). Type 1a. Tower (London) mint; im: lis. Struck 1625. · CAROLVS D’· G’· MAG’· BRI’· FR’· ET HIB’· REX ·, Charles on horseback left, holding reins with left hand and raising sword held in right / CHRIS TO · AVS PICE · R EGNO ·, coat-of-arms on long cross fourchée. Cooper,
Silver dies II/I; Brooker 231 (same dies); North 2190; SCBC 2753. Good VF. Well struck with faint tinges of golden luster in gray toning.
Ex Classical Numismatic Group Inventory 967404 (November 2013); Arthur Chesser From the Arthur Chesser Collection (Dix, Noonan, & Webb 113, 17 September 2013), lot 9.