The Gary Oddie Collection of English Regal Shillings

Charles I (1625-1649), Carlisle, Shilling, 1645, c r crowned dividing trefoil of pellets, value below, rev. obs carl and date in 3 lines, rosette above and below, 5.18g/1h (Hird 244; SCBI Brooker 1220, same dies; N 2635; S 3138). Flat in places, otherwise very fine or better, attractive cabinet tone £10,000-£15,000

This lot is to be sold as part of a special collection, The Gary Oddie Collection of English Regal Shillings.

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Collection

H.M. Lingford Collection; Baldwin’s of St James’s Auction 40, 21 November 2019, lot 48; M. Gietzelt Collection, DNW Auction 195, 22 September 2021, lot 158.

Carlisle was defended by the Royalist forces under Sir Thomas Glemham (1594-1649) from October 1644 until the following June, when it was surrendered to the commander of the investing Scottish army, David Leslie, later 1st Lord Newark (1601-82). The city was never assaulted, the siege being rather in the nature of a blockade, and the surrender was brought about in part by the scarcity of food, and in part by the hopelessness of relief. After the defeat of the King's forces at Naseby on 14 June 1645, the garrison, realising that further resistance was hopeless, opened negotiations for the surrender of the city, and the defenders, who numbered some 700, were permitted to march out with all the honours of war on 25 June