Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 2636. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

STUART. Charles I. 1625-1649. AR Gilt Royalist Badge (14.36 g, 12h). Declaration of Parliament issue. Thomas Rawlins, engraver. Struck 1642. “Should hear both houses of parliament for true religion and subiects freedom stand”, Crowned bust right, wearing Badge and Order of the Garter within oval frame bordered by rose-and-laurel wreath / Both Houses of Parliament: Lords above with King; Commons below with Speaker. Hawkins p. 292, 108 and pl. XXVI, 5; SCA 8, 375; Eimer 139. VF, toned, minor trace of gilding remains, includes modern chain for wearing. Extremely rare with fewer than seven specimens known.

Our research turned up the sale of one other specimen in the last few years. See Baldwin’s 38 (4 October 2004), lot 940 for a comparable example which realized £3600 on a pre-sale estimate of £1200