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Auction: 1009 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins, Commemorative Medals & Numismatic Books
Lot: 83

Charles I, Civil War issues, Oxford, Half Pound, 60.36g, 1643, m.m. plume / pellets, king, crowned and holding sword riding left over arms, Oxford plume behind, carolvs:dg:magn:brit:fran:et:hib:rex., rev. Declaration, three Oxford plumes above, date below exvrgat:devs:dissipentvr:inimici (Brooker Appendix 1, no. 15, noted as same obverse dies as 866-867; Morrieson A-1; N.2404; S.2845A), lightly tooled in fields, bold portrait of king, toned, extremely fine, scarce dated 1643 Estimate £ 2,500-3,000 provenance Asherson collection, Spink Auction 6, 10-11 October 1979, lot 57 SNC April 1954, no. 3407 Believed to have been in the collection of Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Beaconsfield

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