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Auction: 17005 - British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 137

Commonwealth (1649-60), Halfcrown, 1651, 14.87g, shield within wreath, rev. conjoined shields, value above, (N.2722; S.3215), slight central weakness, good fine

provenance:
Norweb part 4, Spink auction 59, 17 June 1987, lot 1457

The 1651 issue of Halfcrowns witnessed the introduction of a central dividing pellet between the mark of value, which was to be used on all subsequent years of issue. This specimen omits this feature, as in the style of the first issue of 1649.


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