Commonwealth (1649-1660), Crown, 1652, 29.71g, m.m. sun, shield of England within palm and laurel wreath, rev. conjoined shields of England and Ireland, mark of value above (ESC 4 {4}; N.2721; S.3214), light stress fracturing and a hint of smoothing in obverse field, otherwise well struck, on a pleasingly round flan, very fine.
provenance
Purchased York, January 2005
Alan Barr, Rasmussen list, part II, no. 215
F. Willis, Glendining, 5 June 1991, lot 376
Estimate: £3,000.00 - £3,500.00