Pontefract 1648 shilling KM-380

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Stack's Bowers 2024 NYINC sale, lot 52145
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This specimen was lot 52145 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2024), where it sold for $5,400. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Pontefract (besieged). Shilling Octagonal Klippe, 1648. Charles I. PCGS VF-30. Displaying a fair degree of handling, but nevertheless retaining all design aspects as well as some deep gunmetal gray toning. Considerably RARER than the issue that appears on a lozenge-shaped planchet. From the Lucius S. Ruder Collection." The royalists also issued several other shillings (KM 381, KM 378, KM 383.2), a unite and a half crown.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver.

Catalog reference: S-3150; N-2648; KM-380.

Source:

  • Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
  • Korchnak, Lawrence C., Siege Coins of the World, 1453-1902, Lancaster, PA: Classical Numismatic Group, 2021.
  • Skingley, Philip, ed., Standard Catalogue of British Coins: Coins of England & the United Kingdom, 46th edition, London: Spink & Son, 2011.
  • Lobel, Richard, Mark Davidson, Allan Hailstone and Eleni Calligas, Coincraft's Standard Catalogue of English and UK Coins, 1066 to Date, London: Coincraft, 1995.
  • [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, January 2024 NYINC Auction, featuring the Emilio M Ortiz Collection and a Symphony of Russian Rarities, the Rothschild-Piatigorsky Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2023.

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