Watch List notes:

NGC MS61 | Commonwealth (1649-1660), Unite, 1653, Tower, [m.m.] THE • COMMONWEALTH • OF • ENGLAND •, English shield within palm and laurel wreath, fourteen laurel leaves, rev. • GOD • WITH • VS • 1653, conjoined shields of England and Ireland, value above, 9.06g, 10h, m.m. sun (on obv. only) (EGC 14; Schneider II, 341; North 2715; Spink 3208), striking splits, minor flan flawing and lightly wiped in antiquity, otherwise reddish peripheral toning, a really bold very fine, in NGC holder, graded MS61 (Cert. #6295508-002)

Provenance
SNC, September 1975, no. 7556 - darkly toned, edge striking splits, EF - £1,000