Magnificent Ship Spur Ryal of James I
Extensive Pedigree

312, Lot: 30. Estimate $75000. Sold for $110000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

STUART. James I. 1603-1625. AV Spur-ryal (34mm, 6.84 g, 11h). Second issue, fine gold coinage. Tower mint; im: rose. Struck 1605-1606. (rose) IACOBVS · D’ · G’ · MAG’ · BRIT’ · FRAN’ · ET · HIB’ · REX ·, half-length facing bust of James, armored and holding sword in right hand, Royal shield on left arm, in ship, adorned with rose, sailing left; I on flag set on forecastle / (rose) · A · DNO’ · FACTVM · EST · ISTVD · ET · EST · MIRABILE ·, floriated cross with lis at end of each limb and rose on sun in center; in angles. crowned lion passant left; all within tressure of eight arches with trefoils in spandrels. Schneider 11 (same dies); North 2080; SCBC 2614. Good VF, toned. Very rare and among the finest known.

From the Clearwater Collection. Ex Spink 206 (1 December 2010), lot 925; Sotheby’s (9 October 1995), lot 766; Ridgemount Collection (Spink 69, 20 April 1989), lot 179; R. Duncan Beresford-Jones Collection (Spink 29, 2 June 1983), lot 85; Henry Platt Hall Collection (Glendining, 19 July 1950), lot 99; Oswald Fitch Collection (purchased en bloc by Spink, circa 1920); Hilton Price Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, 17 May 1909), lot 175; J.E. Moon Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, 7 May 1901), lot 170; Lord Hastings Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, 15 November 1880), lot 355.