The Gary Oddie Collection of English Regal Shillings

Commonwealth (1649-1660), Proof Shilling, 1651, mm. sun on obv. only, no stop after the, 6.06g/6h (ESC 91; Oddie, BNS Blog 30 Sept. 2021, this coin illustrated; N 2724; S 3217). Struck on a broad flan, extremely fine with much original brilliance, attractively toned, exceptionally rare £6,000-£8,000

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

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A Collection of Coins of the Commonwealth, the Property of a Gentleman, St James’s Auction 10, 6-7 November 2008, lot 480 [from Baldwin]; Baldwin FPL Winter 2010-11 (BH 068).

A copy of the blog article accompanies the coin. The very few genuine Proof shillings of 1651, which can clearly be distinguished from others of ‘fine work’ of the same date by the crucial omission of the stop after the on the obverse, were doubtless prepared by the coterie of hammered moneyers working under David Ramage (1615-61) at a time when the threat to their livelihood, caused by the new coining machinery brought from France by Pierre Blondeau (†1672) and operated by him at Drury House in the Strand, was a serious concern