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Irish Silver Coins and Tokens, 1649-1813, From the Collection of the Late Harrington Manville

Harrington Emerson Manville

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№ 307

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15 September 2015

Hammer Price:
£8,000

James II (1685-1691), Pewter coinage, Proof Crown, 1690, in silver, reads triumpho, edge mlioris tessera fati, 20.02g/12h (S 6584; DF 473; KM. Pn11; cf. LaRiviere 176 and Spink 26 March 2013, 691, same dies). Weakness in centres and obverse with several rim nicks, otherwise about very fine, portrait of King better, very rare £2,000-3,000

Provenance: Bt Baldwin October 1974