Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 2321. Estimate $3000. Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006. Sold For $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SCOTLAND. Charles I. 1625-1649. AV Unite (9.99 g, 6h). Third (Briot's) coinage, struck 1637-1642. CAROLVS D G MAG BRITAN FRAN ET HIB REX, half-length armored figure of king right, holding sceptre and orb; mm: thistle and B / HIS • PRÆSVM • VT • PROSIM •, crowned coat-of-arms; flanked by crowned C R with diamonds. Burns 3 (fig. 1032); SCBI 35 (Ashmolean), 1392 (same dies); SCBC 5531. Good VF, toned, faint adjustment marks, struck from rusty dies. ($3000)
From the Dr. Thomas Dailey Collection.