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Auction 22109 4 May 2022
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(x) NGC XF45 | James I (1603-1625), Third Coinage, Crown, 18 June 1624 - 7 July 1625, Tower, (m.m.) IACOBVS D : G : MAG : BRIT : FRAN : ET HI : REX, King on horseback trotting right, ground line below, rev. (m.m.) QVÆ DEVS CONIVNXIT NEMO SEPARET •, no stops in legend except after SEPARET, square-topped and lightly garnished shield, 29.96g, 2h, m.m. trefoil (FRC XI/XXI, lot - [cf. -/38], and pp. 150-151, no. 5 and (k); Lingford 68; Barr IV, C529; North 2120; Spink 2664), toned, a pleasing very fine with flares of underlying residual lustre, an extremely rare die combination not included in the Cooper dispersal and referred to only speculatively in his 1970 BNJ article from the then two known specimens (Lingford and the British Museum).
Provenance
Sundial Valley Farms, Stack's Bowers, 16 August 2021, lot 40451
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Since publication of Cooper's article a further two coins have surfaced, the inferior and split Barr specimen (Rasmussen FPL, April 2006, C529), subsequently sold in the Michael S Tallent (Stack's, 24 April 2008, lot 43) and an unprovenanced specimen (DNW, 8 October 2002, lot 1170). Given the evident rarity of the variety it is conceivable that either the present example or that offered in 2002 is the Lingford coin. Images of the other known specimens ensures that four examples are extant.
Estimate: £2000 - £3000
Provenance
Sundial Valley Farms, Stack's Bowers, 16 August 2021, lot 40451
, ,
Since publication of Cooper's article a further two coins have surfaced, the inferior and split Barr specimen (Rasmussen FPL, April 2006, C529), subsequently sold in the Michael S Tallent (Stack's, 24 April 2008, lot 43) and an unprovenanced specimen (DNW, 8 October 2002, lot 1170). Given the evident rarity of the variety it is conceivable that either the present example or that offered in 2002 is the Lingford coin. Images of the other known specimens ensures that four examples are extant.
Estimate: £2000 - £3000