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Tower mint, Shilling, Gp C, mm. plume, bust 2, pellet stops, groups of four pellets by mm., rev. plume over shield, ornate garniture, five- and seven-pellet stops, 5.61g/5h (Sharp C2/4; SCBI Brooker 454, same dies; N 2222; S 2788). A piece of exceptionally fine workmanship, about extremely fine with proof-like fields, very rare £2,000-2,600

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

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Provenance: J.F. Neck Collection; H. Webb Collection, Part I, Sotheby Auction, 9-14 July 1894, lot 420; J.G. Murdoch Collection, Part VII, Sotheby Auction, 12-13 December 1904, lot 218; Helen Farquhar Collection, Glendining Auction, 25 April 1955, lot 55; bt A. Jacobs 2005