| Numismatica Ars Classica > Auction 145 with CNG & NGSA | Auction date: 8 May 2024 |
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| Lot description: The Geoffrey Cope Collection of British Coins. Charles I. 1625-1649. AR Crown (42mm, 30.01 g, 10h). Group I, type 1b. London mint; im: lis. Struck 1625. Charles on caparisoned horse left, holding sword over shoulder and reins / Coat-of-arms; plumes above. Birch, Metal p. 162-170; Cooper, Silver dies IV/VI; Brooker 235 (same dies); North 2191; SCBC 2754. Some metal stress. Otherwise virtually as struck with a light mauve tone with some blue lustre. Near EF. Extremely rare. Ex Inveruglas (Noble 48, 13 July 1995) lot 4442; H. Selig (Spink 70, 31 May 1989), lot 72; Rodney Smith Collection; Bridgewater House (Sotheby's, 15 June 1972), lot 237. This coin exhibited, Coins, Crown & Conflict, American Numismatic Association, Money Museum, 2007. In 1622 James I ordered the Tower mint to place the provenance mark of three ostrich feathers in a coronet on Crowns, Halfcrowns and Shillings struck from silver which came from the royal mines in Wales. The plume coinages for the reigns of James I and Charles I are scarce, the Crowns for the earliest type of Charles I particularly so. Prior to the rediscovery of this coin in the Bridgewater House Collection, formed by the earls of Bridgewater in the 17th Century and sold in 1972, only five type 1b Crown with the lis mint mark were known. Estimate: 8000 CHF |  |
