Tower 1634-1635



There are some coins which may be described as awesome.
The above Crown is a beautiful specimen, deeply toned with underlying
original lustre, struck on a full flan and as struck.

Charles I, Crown, 29.97g., Tower mint group 3a, m.m. bell, king crowned and in
armour holding a sword upright, on horseback left, the horse undecorated, reads
BR FR HIB, rev. oval garnished shields (FRC XV/XX; N.2195; S.2758.
 
A provenance from one of the greatest collectors of his age Samuel Tyssen from 1802
who was followed later by Hyman Montagu a century later, both men had an appetite
for the finest quality.

This piece has been through the collections of Tyssen, Bergne, Neck,
Webb, Lingford, Slaney.