Auction Catalogue

16 March 2011

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British and World Coins, Numismatic Books

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 85

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16 March 2011

Hammer Price:
£520

Commonwealth (1649-1660), 1652/1/49, mm. sun on obv. only, reads commmonwealth, 2.19g/10h (ESC 1487B; N 2726; S 3219). Clipped and creased, otherwise fair, the overstruck dates clear, extremely rare £200-250

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 47.

See footnote to ESC 1487B from which this appears to be the other of the two coins mentioned