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Auction 17006  25-26 Sep 2017
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Lot 847

Starting price: 280 GBP
Price realized: 420 GBP
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Commonwealth (1649-60), Shilling, 5.68g, 1655 over 4 over 3, m.m. sun, shield of England within palm and laurel wreath, rev., conjoined shields of England and Ireland, mark of value above (ESC 149 {994A} [R3] this coin; N.2724; S.3217), pierced in centre, otherwise fine or better, rare.
Provenance:
D S Freedman, Spink auction 55, 8 October 1986, lot 52, £160 - "officially pierced at the time of the 1696 recoinage, otherwise fine and the overdate clear, extremely rare"
Dr. E C Carter, collection purchased en bloc by Baldwin in 1950
Estimate: £350.00 - £450.00
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