British, Irish and Scottish Coins

Commonwealth (1649-1660), 1652/49, mm. sun on obv. only, reads commmonwealth, 2.83g/10h (ESC 1487B; N 2726; S 3219; Manville and Gaspar, BNJ 1991, pp.137-8, pl. 15, 3, this coin). Fields lightly tooled, otherwise good fine, extremely rare
£600-700

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Collection of Sixpences formed by the late Alfred Bole.

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Provenance: H.E. Manville Collection, Spink Auction 154, 12 July 2001, lot 46 [from Baldwin July 1980].

This appears to be one of the two coins mentioned in the footnote to ESC 1487B and is struck from the same obverse die as the 1651/0 double-crown in Lockett, lot 4245