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Auction: 12009 - The Magnus Collection, Ancient, English & Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 949

Charles I, Civil War coinages, Oxford, 1642-46, Crown, 30.19g, 1642, no m.m., Shrewsbury die, King, crowned and holding sword, riding left, ground line below, Shrewsbury plume behind, rev. Oxford die, Declaration in two lines, three Oxford plumes above with value, date below (Brooker 869 - same dies; N.2405; S.2949), pleasing, minor die crack extending into Declaration from 5 o´clock, extremely fine, rare Estimate £ 4,000-5,000 provenance Bt. Spink, July 1983 H.M. Lingford I, Glendining, 24-27 October 1950, lot 168

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