| Spink > Auction 24004 | Auction date: 4 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 136 Price realized: 5,500 GBP (Approx. 6,912 USD / 6,421 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | Show similar lots on CoinArchives Find similar lots in upcoming auctions on  |
| Lot description: Commonwealth (1649-1660), Five-Shilling Piece, Quarter-Unite or Gold Crown, 1649, Tower, • THE • COMMONWEALTH • OF • ENGLAND •, coat of arms of England, rev. • GOD • WITH • VS •, conjoined shields of England and Ireland, no flanking stops by large V above, 2.18g [33.6grns], 8h, m.m. sun [on obverse only] (Schneider II, 357 different dies; EGC 53 [R4] this coin illustrated; Lockett 3538; North 2719; Spink 3212), small striking flaws in fields on reverse, otherwise struck on a broad flan with die capping to peripheries, reddish tones, a pleasingly good very fine / very fine, the seminal year of the Commonwealth very rare (either in gold or silver) and with a distinguished pedigree, unencapsulated, with NGC Ticket, graded AU58 (Cert. #5880621-006). Provenance, Sovereign Rarities, by private treaty (ref. BM02070), 2021, New York Sale LIII, 14 January 2021, lot 3137 - wherein graded NGC AU58 [unsold], NGSA Auction 10, 3 December 2018, lot 250 - "très bel exemplaire" CHF8,000 [Goldbart], A H Baldwin, by private treaty, 2014, D J Tisbury, "Collection of Commonwealth Gold Coins: The Property of a Gentleman", Spink 217, 26-27 June 2013, lot 666 - £6,800, Bowers & Merena, 9-11 September 1985, lot 3545 - "choice, about uncirculated, one of the nicest examples of this type we have seen", , , https://www.ngccoin.com/certlookup/5880621-006/58/, Estimate: £6000 - £8000 |  |
