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Commonwealth 1660 Sixpence, initial mark Anchor, final year

Commonwealth (1649-60), silver Sixpence, 1660, English shield within laurel and palm branch, legends in English language, initial mark anchor, .THE. COMMONWEALTH. OF. ENGLAND., rev. English and Irish shields, value .VI. above, beaded circle and legend surrounding, date at top, legend surrounding, .GOD. WITH. VS., weight 3.05g (Bull 215 R3; ESC 1497; N.2727; S.3220). Toned, some light flan flaws on reverse, otherwise almost very fine and very rare.

All Commonwealth period produced the first British coins to have legends in plain English.

Provenance:

Ex Glendining, 13th November 1974, lot 482.

Ex Collection of a Continental Collector, Spink Coin Auction 38, 10th October 1984, lot 36.

Ex Tisbury Collection, part II, Spink Coin Auction, 6th December 2017, lot 170.

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