Tower mint, Shilling, Gp G, mm. triangle (over anchor, flukes to right on rev.), bust 1, pellet stops both sides, 5.88g/12h (Sharp G1/1; cf. SCBI Brooker 543; N 2231; S 2799). Nearly very fine £100-150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Coins of Charles I From the Lyall Collection.

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Provenance: Prestbury (Greater Manchester) Hoard, 2004; DNW Auction 68, 12 December 2005, lot 136 (part).

This must be the first issue of Gp G, showing the reverse overmark. Brooker had no true coin of this variety; the three pieces in his collection with these marks were Gp G/Briot mules (SCBI 540-2)