The Gary Oddie Collection of English Regal Shillings

Charles II (1660-1685), Milled coinage, Shilling, 1669/6, first bust variety, harp with 8 strings, 5.72g/6h (ESC 515; S 3372). Obverse fair, reverse mediocre and with light pitting, portrait and overdate clear, excessively rare £1,000-£2,000

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.A. Parsons Collection, Part II, Glendining Auction, 11-13 May 1954, lot 549 (part); Lord Hamilton Collection, Spink Auction 3, 21 February 1979, lot 82 [from Spink July 1959]; P. Pywell-Phillips Collection, Spink Auction 258, 30-1 October 2018, lot 58.

These excessively rare coins, of which the finest extant is believed to be the Manville/Woodhouse specimen, all appear to have been struck from the same pair of dies