Watch List notes:

Charles I (1625-1649), Group E, Type 4.1var.,'Lyre Ends' Pattern Sixpence, 1635-1636, Tower (under King), (m.m.) • CAROLVS • D .' G • MAG .' BR .' FR .' ET • HI .' REX •, crowned 'Aberystwyth' bust left, value behind, rev. CHRISTO • AVSPICE • REGNO •:• (m.m.), square-topped shield over short cross with lyre-ends, 2.94g, 4h, m.m. tun (G R Francis, [BNJ 1919], pp. 79-116, Pl. 2, no. 4 this coinBole 1591 same dies; Brooker 628 same dies; North 2243; Spink 2815 [2801A]), lightly creased and straightened and a small flan split by MAG, otherwise sumptuously cabinet toned, a hint of doubling, otherwise struck details approaching extremely fine for issue, extremely rare, and with an esteemed pedigree as Grant Francis' 1919 plate coin.
provenance
A Morris, collection dispersed by Bennett (Monmouth), 2007
Spink, by private treaty, November 2001 - £605
Shuttlewood, SNC, June 2001, HS0648 - superb, EF - £750
Lt. Col H W Morrieson, Glendining, 20-24 November 1933, lot 635 [part] - £2.10.0 [Baldwin]
Grant R. Francis, BNJ, 1919, pp. 84-86, and Pl. 2, no. 4 - "...Colonel Morrieson and Mr. Raymond Carlyon-Britton each have a variety in which the ends of the cross have lyre-shaped terminals. This obverse occurs only with the mintmark tun"...
Colonel Morrieson Catalogue: "Pellet each side of m.m., trident ends to cross, reading MAG",
J H Daniels, by private treaty, 7 May 1911, £1.5.6


Estimate: £2000 - £2400