A Collection of British Milled Sixpences

William III (1694-1702), 1700, third bust, plume below, first l of gvlielmvs over e (cf. ESC 1580; S 3548). Some hairline scratches, poor to fair but the plume clear, the variant of the obverse legend not noted in ESC, extremely rare (£500-600)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of British Milled Sixpences.

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Provenance:
H.E. Manville Collection, Spink Auction 9, 4 June 1980, lot 184 [from Seaby November 1971]
SNC December 2000 (128)

The obv. die is different to the specimen illustrated in the Standard Catalogue, 2007