Great Britain (1627-28) crown Dav-3762
This specimen was lot 31197 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Chicago, August 2022), where it sold for $. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Crown, ND (1627-8). London Mint; mm: castle (over cross Calvary)/castle. Charles I. PCGS EF-45. Group 1, type 1b. Obverse: Charles, holding sword and reins, riding caparisoned horse trotting left; Reverse: Garnished square-topped coat-of-arms; Welsh plumes above. A fairly RARE and seldom-seen type, this elegant specimen features attractive gunmetal gray toning and an even strike throughout. Some hints of brilliance are also evident, especially in the more protected areas of the reverse. From the Mark and Lottie Salton Collection. Ex: F. B. Nightingale Collection (Glendining - 10/1951) Lot # 41. Ex: Capt. H. E. G. Paget Collection (Glendining, 9/1946). Ex: E. E. Yates Collection (purchased en-bloc by Baldwin, 1938). Ex: Sir Kenyon Vaughan-Morgan Collection (Sotheby's - 6/1935) Lot # 216." This is the second crown type for Charles I, in which the king's monogram was added and the cross behind the shield was deleted on the reverse. It was struck until 1633. Spink[2] lists S-2753 thru S-2762 for the major varieties struck at the Tower mint. The mint struggled to strike these large coins as it lacked the screw presses used in Germany to strike thalers.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 30.10 g, 0.925 fine silver.
Catalog reference: KM 128, Dav-3762, S-2754; N-2191; Brooker-239 (same dies).
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- Davenport, John S., European Crowns, 1600-1700, Galesburg, IL, 1974.
- Lobel, Richard, Mark Davidson, Allan Hailstone and Eleni Calligas, Coincraft's Standard Catalogue of English and UK Coins, 1066 to Date, London: Coincraft, 1995.
- [2]Skingley, Philip, ed., Standard Catalogue of British Coins: Coins of England & the United Kingdom, 46th edition, London: Spink & Son, 2011.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The 2022 ANA Auction - Ancients & World Coins - Featuring The Salton Collection Part III, the Augustana Collection and the Robert C. Knepper Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2022.
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