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AVery Nice Example of a Commonwealth Silver Crown
and Final Date For This Mint Mark
Commonwealth (1649-60), silver Crown, 1656, second 6 struck over 4. English shield within laurel and
palm branch, legends in English language, initial mark sun.THE. COMMONWEALTH. OF. ENGLAND.,
the second N struck over an inverted N, Rev. English and Irish shields, value .V. above, beaded circle and
legend surrounding, date at top, GOD. WITH. VS., 29.77g (cf.Bull 13; ESC 9; N 2721; S 3214; KM 392).
Attractively toned, a little weak on one part of shields both sides, in PCGS holder graded AU 50, a pleasing
example.
$5,500
Ex Dix, Noonan and Webb, 28th September 2005, lot 359.
PCGS certification 34313337. This coin does not have the inverted A for V on the reverse as per the Bull entry. The Commonwealth
coinagewere the only tohave legends inEnglish language until the 1953Crownof QueenElizabethhad an edge inscription inEnglish.