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'Fine Work' Commonwealth Shilling
Pedigreed to 1847

312, Lot: 39. Estimate $10000.
Sold for $15000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

COMMONWEALTH. 1649-1660. AR ‘Fine Work’ Shilling (32mm, 6.08 g, 9h). Tower mint; im: sun/-. Dated 1651. (sun) · THE · COMMONWEALTH · OF · ENGLAND ·, coat-of-arms within wreath / · GOD · WITH · VS · 1651 ·, coats-of-arms bearing St. George's Cross and Irish harp; ·XII· (mark of value) above. ESC 983; North 2724; SCBC 3217. Choice EF, proof like fields, attractive dark tone. A piece of ‘fine work.’ Very rare.


From the Clearwater Collection. Ex Martin Hughes Collection (Spink 139, 16 November 1999), lot 192; Seaby (23 April 1986), lot 170; M.A. Brigg Collection (Glendining, 23 May 1939), lot 406; C.A. Watters Collection (Glendining, 21 May 1917), lot 441; J.G. Murdoch Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 8 June 1903), lot 404; Hyram Montagu Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 8 November 1896), lot 690; W. Brice Collection (purchased en bloc by Hyram Montagu, 1887); J.B. Bergne Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 20 May 1873), lot 861; W. Durrant Collection (Sotheby & Wilkinson, 19 April 1847), lot 731.

The very rare ‘fine work’ issues of 1651, struck with particular care on broad round flans, have been interpreted as a reply of the hammer men to the challenge presented by the patterns of the same date which were struck by Pierre Blondeau on his milled press.