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Auction 21064  28 Sep 2021
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Lot 18

Starting price: 350 GBP
Price realized: 2300 GBP
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AU55 | James I (1603-1625), Second Coinage, Britain Crown [of 5 Shillings and Sixpence], 1613-1615, Tower, (m.m.) • IACOBVS .' D .' G .' MAG .' BRI .' FRA .' ET .' HI .' REX, fifth crowned and cuirassed bust right, rev. (m.m.) HENRICVS • ROSAS • REGNA • IACOBVS, crowned square-topped shield dividing I-R, 2.46g [37.9grns], 8h, m.m. cinquefoil (HCN 221; Lingford 1010 this coin; Schneider II, 52-56, [cf. 51 for m.m.]; North 2092; Spink 2626), flan filed at 3 o'clock, otherwise on a broad and slightly wavy flan, a really bold very fine, a rare privy mark for bust type, in NGC 'Horace Hird' holder, graded AU55 (Cert. #6135299-018).
Provenance
A Lost Parcel from the Celebrated Horace Hird Collection
H M Lingford, Part II, Glendining, 20-21 June 1951, lot 1010 [illus.] - full flan, extremely fine and rare with this bust - £5.15.0 [Spink for Hird]
Spink, April 1934
Estimate: £400 - £600
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