| Description: |
88.6 grains. 31.8 mm. A coin of magnificent rarity, one of just a few Large Sails Hogge
Money shillings in private hands. While any Sommer Islands shilling is a rarity, this coin
is rarer still for several reasons: it is in private hands and not impounded in one of
several institutions in Bermuda, the United States, or England; it is struck from the
Large Sails reverse, from which far fewer pieces survive than the Small Sails reverse; and
it has the added interest of a century-old provenance to one of the most famous and
elaborate cabinets ever formed. |
