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Auction: 15031 - The Slaney Collection of English Coins - Part 2
Lot: 345

Charles I (1625-49), Oxford, Pound, 118.92g, 1644, by Thomas Rawlins, carolvs: d:g: mag: brit: fra: et: hiber: rex, king on horseback left, of fine workmanship, holding upright sword in right hand, the spirited horse trampling on arms, Oxford plume behind, rev. .exvrgat. devs. dissipentvr. inimici., Declaration in three lines framed in cartouche, relig : prot : leg: ang : liber : par :, single Oxford plume and mark of value .xx. above, date and ox below (Brooker 865; Morr.A-1; N.2402; S.2943), crisply struck on a neat round flan, nearly extremely fine with deep old toning, extremely rare and a beautiful example of this famous and important coin

Provenance
H M Lingford, part I, Glendining, 24 October 1950, lot 162, 'a beautiful piece of great rarity', £160
V Brand, collection dispersed after 1932
T Bliss, part I, Sotheby, 22-24 March 1916, lot 429 (illustrated), £34
H Montagu, third portion, Sotheby, 13-20 November 1896, lot 495, £36


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£120,000