Great Britain: James I (1603-25) gold Rose-Ryal ND / TradePongo

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Great Britain: James I (1603-25) gold Rose-Ryal ND

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A Fabulous, Perfectly Struck Rose-Ryal!
James I (1603-25) gold Rose-Ryal ND, of 30 Shillings, S-2632, North-2108 (rare), Schneider-77, 3rd Coinage of 1619-25, King Enthroned with portcullis at his feet, Tower mint London, Spur rowel mm (struck 1619-20), minted from 23-ct 3.5-gr or almost pure gold, MS63 NGC. The cataloguer spent ten minutes poring over every area of this coin under 9x magnification but was unable to find a single fault. The coin is fully struck down to the smallest design elements. The king's facial features are complete even in the tiniest detail. Surfaces are splendid, showing only tiny contact marks under high magnification. The two spur-rowel initial marks are fully impressed, and the legends are crisp on every letter. Comparing it, this piece actually seems to be finer than the Schneider plate coin, which is not fully struck on HIB REX. This is as fine a Rose-Ryal as the cataloguer has seen in almost 40 years of handling and writing about English coins. It glows with early 17th-century luster and is superb! We've looked carefully through auction records worldwide and cannot locate another piece, of any initial mark, that is either as technically fine or as well struck.