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Auction 21090 28 Jan 2022
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Charles I (1625-49), Briot's coinage, 1631-32, Unite, 8.66g, i.m. flower (anemone) on obverse, B both sides, crowned, draped and cuirassed bust left, with falling lace collar, value XX behind, rev. crowned shield dividing crowned C-R (North 2294; SCBI 33 (Brooker) 705 same dies; Schneider 271 same dies; S.2719), polished, removed from a mount and badly repaired at 12 o'clock, the details fine and still (remarkably!) an attractive coin.
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Wallis & Wallis auction 624, 18 October 2008, lot 327
Briot's personal mark, the flower, has been obliterated by the plug of the mount. However, the dies are clearly Briot's first dies, with the drapery and shoulder armour on the obverse and the garnishing at the base of the shield on the reverse touching the inner circles (see Schneider 271 and Brooker 705), and this tells us the flower is the first type, called anemone.
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,200
PROVENANCE
Wallis & Wallis auction 624, 18 October 2008, lot 327
Briot's personal mark, the flower, has been obliterated by the plug of the mount. However, the dies are clearly Briot's first dies, with the drapery and shoulder armour on the obverse and the garnishing at the base of the shield on the reverse touching the inner circles (see Schneider 271 and Brooker 705), and this tells us the flower is the first type, called anemone.
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,200