Live Auction 1279ANCIENT, ENGLISH, ISLAMIC AND FOREIGN COINS & COM. MEDALS
Sixpence, 1652 over 49, reads COMMMONWEALTH in error (ESC 1487B, R5 but see note), lightly tooled in fields on both sides, otherwise good fine, an extremely rare and most interesting coin
Lot 46

Sixpence, 1652 over 49, reads COMMMONWEALTH in error (ESC 1487B, R5 but see note), lightly tooled in fields on both sides, otherwise good fine, an extremely rare and most interesting coin

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GBP 1,265

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Sixpence, 1652 over 49, reads COMMMONWEALTH in error (ESC 1487B, R5 but see note), lightly tooled in fields on both sides, otherwise good fine, an extremely rare and most interesting coin

A H Baldwin and Sons, July 1980

Specialist note

Struck from the obverse die for the Double-crown (see R C Lockett part X, 26 April 1960, lot 4245, illustrated). One of only two known, see next lot.