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Auction: 14006 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 341

Charles I (1625-49), Civil War coinages, Oxford, 1642-46, Triple Unite, 26.96g, 1642, m.m. plume/4 pellets, king half length left, crowned, armoured, holding sword and laurel branch, Oxford plume behind, rev. Declaration in three lines, three Oxford plumes above, date below (Beresford-Jones dies I/S1; Schneider 284 -same dies; Brooker 830 - same dies; N.2381; S.2724), some doubling to obverse otherwise a pleasing example, the bust in mostly high relief, a hint of toning, clear date, fields generally clean, good very fine

provenance

Bt. Spink, November 1947

Beresford-Jones, BNJ Vol. XXVII notes of this obverse die; 'The bust of the king shows imporvement on that of the Shrewsbury triple unite, although new puncheons have not been cut. Owing to the lack of a skilful engraver at Shrewsbury, it was impossible to cut a single large puncheon for the king's bust. Separate puncheons were used, therefore, for the head, the body, the sword, and the palm branch. It was not until the arrival of London workmen in 1643 that a single puncheon could be cut for the king's bust.'

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