James I Crown, plumes reverse made from Welsh silver, mm trefoil / lis XF45

James I (1603-25), silver Crown, third coinage (1619-25), variety with plumes over reverse shield indicating Welsh mined silver, armoured King on horseback right, sword on shoulder, plain groundline below, Latin legend and beaded borders surrounding both sides, initial mark trefoil over lis (1624) both sides, IACOBVS D: G: MAG: BRI: FRAN: ET HIB: REX. rev. Welsh plumes over quartered shield of arms, legend and beaded border surrounding, no punctuation with letter Ns inverted, except the second N which is N punched over inverted N, QVÆ DEVS CONIVNXIT NEMO SEPARET, weight 30.39g (Cooper dies X*/XIX*; N.2121; S.2665). A patch of light flan striations from the annealing of the blank flan and subsequent striking, weak on high points, toned a bold to good very fine and rare, graded by NGC as XF45

NGC Certification 6321962-001 mis-labelled by them as an example of S.2652 when it is S.2665 and currently the second finest graded.

The abbreviated Latin legends translate as on the obverse, "James, by the grace of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland," and on the reverse "What God hath joined together let no man put asunder."

Struck from June 27^th 1624, the trefoil mint mark silver coins of James I sometimes carry a Welsh plumes reverse to denote the use of silver that has been mined from Cardiganshire, Wales to mint those particular issues.

Provenance:

Ex Mark Rasmussen Numismatist, list 22, C11.