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Oliver Cromwell 1656 gold Fifty Shillings, PR62 CAM, senior denomination, ex Barber

Oliver Cromwell (d.1658),gold Fifty Shillings, 1656, laureate head left, legend and toothed border surrounding, OLIVAR. D. G. R P. ANG. SCO. ET. HIB &c PRO.,rev.crowned quartered shield of arms of the Protectorate, date either side of crown, legend and toothed border surrounding, PAX. QVÆRITVR. BELLO., edge inscribed in raised letters, +PROTECTOR. LITERIS. LITERÆ. NVMMIS. CORONA. ET. SALVS., (Lessen A1; Schneider -; WR 38 R4; Bull EGC 74 R4; N.2743 ER; S.3224). Attractively toned with red colour, a few spots with hairlines evident both sides, a touch of wear only to the higher points of the hair in the portrait, has been graded and slabbed by PCGS as PR62 Cameo, extremely rare and infrequently offered for sale, the rarest gold denomination in the milled series being the only time a 50 shilling face value coin was issued and in very limited numbers, 14 examples thought to exist with half this number in commerce and half housed at institutional collections, the senior and rarest denomination of the Commonwealth period.