Ancient & British Coins, Artefacts, World Coins, Historical Medals and Banknotes

Commonwealth (1649-1660), Cromwell, Lord Protector, pattern Sixpence, 1658, an British Museum electrope of Tanner’s copy, R[eady] on (plain) edge, 3.5 gms. Good very fine (£60-80)

Only four examples of the genuine Cromwell Sixpence are believed to exist, though rather more of the copies executed in the Low Countries or by Tanner.