CNG 90, Lot: 2589. Estimate $4000. Sold for $8500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

STUART. Charles I. 1625-1649. AV Unite (36mm, 8.91 g, 8h). Declaration type. Oxford mint; im: plumes/-. Dated 1644. · CAROLVS · D : G : MAG : BR : FR : ET · HI : REX · (lozenge and double lozenge stops throughout), crowned and mantled bust left, holding sword and laurel branch; XX to right / EXVRGAT · DEVS · DISSIPENTVR · INIMICI · (continuing into inner field) RELIG · PRO ·/· LEG : ANG :/LIB · PAR; three plumes above; below, ·I644· above OX. Brooker 852A (same dies); Schneider 323 (same dies); North 2389; SCBC 2735A. VF, toned, area of weakness on king’s face, minor die shift on reverse. Rare.

From the Ian Gordon Collection. Ex Triton VIII (10 January 2005), lot 1787.