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A Lost Parcel from the Celebrated Horace Hird Collection | James I (1603-1625), Second Coinage, 'Ship Noble' or Spur Ryal, 1611-1612, Tower, (m.m.) IACOBVS • D .' G .' MAG .' BRIT .' FRAN .' ET • | HIB .' REX, King holding sword and Royal shield, standing three-quarters facing in Galleon, double-rose set atop lower of two gun decks, ropes 3/3, I on standard, plain masts either side of King, choppy waters lap below, rev. (m.m.) • A • DNO .' FACTVM • EST • ISTVD • ET • EST • MIRABILE : (the colon over the key), rose upon radiant sun, alternating crowned Leopards and floriate cross terminals in angles, small trefoils in spandrels, 6.76g [104.3grns], 10h, m.m. mullet [over key] (HCN 205; Montagu III, 136 = Murdoch I, 686 = Lingford II, 893 this coin; Rashleigh [1909], 858 = BM 1935.0401.6994 same dies; Schneider II, 12-13, same obverse die; North 2080; Spink 2614), a brighter specimen with a faint hint of doubling to reverse legends, otherwise a truly awe-inspiring example of this classic Stuart rarity, highly befitting of the revered 19th and 20th Century cabinets it has formerly graced, beautifully round with flares of residual lustre, a most captivating extremely fine, of the highest rarity and once thought unique by Montagu and Murdoch, now one of three recorded with this privy mark, and still the finest known either in public or private hands with an outstanding pedigree From the Lingford, Murdoch, Montagu, Addington, Forster and Cuff Collections