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Auction: 18025 - The Pywell-Phillips Collection of English Milled Silver and Copper Coins
Lot: 58

Charles II (1660-85), Shilling, 1669 over 6, first bust variety, rev. seven strings to harp, oblique milling on edge (ESC 515 [R6] {1031}; S.3372), the reverse very softly struck, with general light pitting to surfaces, the portrait and overdate otherwise clear, about fine/poor, but excessively rare

provenance
Lord Hamilton of Dalzell MC, Spink 3, 21 February 1979, lot 82 - "fair, but of the highest rarity" - £260
Purchased Spink, July 1959
H A Parsons, Glendining 11-13 May 1954, lot 549 part (illus.) - "well preserved and excessively rare" - £22

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Sold for
£1,700