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Auction 26  5 March 2014
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Lot 26

Estimate: 20 000 GBP
Price realized: 23 000 GBP
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Oliver Cromwell, broad, 1656, by Thomas Simon, laur. bust l., rev. crowned shield of arms (S.3225; N.2744), in plastic holder, graded by PCGS as Mint State 62, a handsome example with a most pleasing golden red tone, nearly as struck with deeply frosted portrait and shield, light handling in the fields, finer than many seen, rare and appealing as the first milled gold coin equivalent in value in its day to the early guinea, which would appear within a few years of this historic coinage
£20,000-25,000
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