Triton XX, Lot: 1580. Estimate $1500. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

STUART. James I. 1603-1625. AR Crown (44mm, 29.82 g, 5h). Third coinage. Tower (London) mint; im: thistle. Struck 1621-1623. (thistle) IACOBVS D : G : MAG : BRIT : FRAN : ET HIB’ · REX, James, crowned and wearing armor, right on caparisoned horse, holding raised sword and reins / (thistle) QVÆ DEVS CONIVNXIT NEMO SEPARET, garnished coat-of-arms. Cooper, English 3 (dies VIII/XV – rev. of this coin illustrated); North 2120; SCBC 2664. VF, toned. Very rare mint mark.

From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection. Ex Spink/Smythe 301 (15 May 2010), lot 1299; Alan Barr Collection (Part III, Mark Rasmussen FPL 8, Summer 2005), no. 176; Spink 82 (27 March 1990), lot 114; Spink 62 (19 November 1987), lot 283; West Country Collector [Cooper] (Glendining’s, 8 November 1978), lot 30; Archdeacon Ellison Collection (purchased by Spink, 1965); Richard Cyrill Lockett Collection (English Part II, Glendining, 11 October 1956), lot 2140; E. E. Yates Collection (purchased by A. H. Baldwin, 1938); Colonel Walter C. Symons Collection (purchased by A. H. Baldwin, 1932).