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Auction: 18025 - The Pywell-Phillips Collection of English Milled Silver and Copper Coins
Lot: 9

Charles II (1660-85), Crown, 1665, rev. eight strings to harp, + decvs et tvtamen * anno regni xvii on edge (ESC 365 [R3] {31}; S.3355), softly struck, especially to periphery, otherwise lightly toned, a pleasing fine, the reverse better, very rare

provenance
M Rasmussen, list 5, Summer 2003, no. 147 (illus.) - £1,475
M Kaufman collection
K R Wooster, "An important collection of Charles II Crowns", Spink 85, 23 July 1991, lot 502 (to Kaufman)
R F Huth, Sotheby, 4 April 1927, lot 459 - "fine for this very rare date, the year of the Plague" - £5 (to Spink)
T Wakley, Sotheby, 6-8 December 1909, lot 150 - £4 (to Baldwin)

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Sold for
£2,500