Exceptional Pedigree

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 1340. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $8500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

STUART. Charles I. 1625-1649. AR Crown (30.32 g, 3h). Declaration type. Shrewsbury mint; mm: plume. Dated 1642. CAROLVS : D : G : MAG : BRIT • FRAN • ET • HIBER • REX •, Charles I, crowned and armored, holding sword and rein, on horseback left; plume behind, ground line below / DEVS • DISSIPENTVR • INIMICI • EXVRGAT •, RELIG • PROT • LEG / ANG • LIBER • PAR in two lines across central field; three plumes and • V • above, date below. Morrieson, Shrewsbury, dies B/1; Brooker 806 (same dies); North 2370; SCBC 2926. Good VF, toned.

Ex Edward D.J. Van Roekel Collection (Spink 156, 15 November 2001), lot 51; Glendining (3 May 1978), lot 95; Glendining (19 June 1974), lot 281; S.A.H. Whetmore Collection (Glendining, 14 July 1961), lot 40; H.M. Lingford Collection (Glendining, 24 October 1950), lot 151; Archduke Sigismund Collection (A. Hess, 11 July 1933), lot 467; G.R. Francis Collection (Glendining, 24 March 1920), lot 286; Joseph Young Collection (Sotheby, 5-7 February 1919), lot 299 (part of; with Shrewsbury Halfcrown of 1642; sold for £5.10/-).