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Auction 2  24 Sep 2019
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Lot 132

Estimate: 1500 GBP
Price realized: 2800 GBP
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Charles II (1660-85), silver Sixpences (2), second hammered issue (1661), crowned bust left, value VI in field behind, no inner circles, legend and outer toothed border surrounding both sides, initial mark crown on obverse without stops, CAROLVS. II. D: G: MAG: BRI: FR: ET. HIB: REX, rev. long cross fourchée over quartered shield of arms, CHRISTO. AVSPICE. REGNO., weight 2.87g (Bull 294 R5 this coin illustrated; ESC 1508; N.2766; S.3315). Creased in two places, toned, very fine for issue and extremely rare; third hammered issue (1661-62), crowned bust left, value VI in field behind, legend and toothed borders surrounding both sides, initial mark crown both sides, no stops either side of mint mark on obverse, CAROLVS. II. D: G: MAG: BRI: FRA: ET. HIB: REX, rev. long cross fourchée over quartered shield of arms, .CHRISTO. AVSPICE. REGNO., weight 2.80g (Bull 316; ESC 1510, N.2767; S.3323). Toned, weakly struck in one quarter both sides, very fine. (2)

First coin Provenance:
Ex W. D. Ferguson Collection, B A Seaby Coin and Medal Bulletin, September 1960, item 970.
Ex Harrington E. Manville Collection, Spink Coin Auction 154, 12th July 2001, lot 71.
Ex S. Alfred Bole Collection of Sixpences, part I, Dix Noonan Webb Auction 89, 29th September 2010, lot 1650.
Ex Dix Noonan and Webb, Auction 132, 15th September 2015, lot 537.
Plate coin in Bull English Silver Coinage as an example of the Second Hammered Issue Sixpence.
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