British Coins

Charles I (1625-1649), ‘Lathom House’, Sixpence, a uniface copy, probably Victorian, in silver, cr in pellet circle, vi below, 3.19g (cf. Nelson, BNJ 1905, p.318, fig 35; cf. DNW 102, lot 2493). Struck on a hallmarked piece of patterned plate, very fine, extremely rare £400-600

A shilling of this type in the British Museum is attributed to Lathom House in Lancashire, supposedly struck during a siege in 1643-4 when the Countess of Derby and her followers held out against Generals Fairfax and Egerton