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Auction: 19025 - Ancient, Indian and Islamic, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 1694

Charles I (1625-49), Contemporary Forgery Halfcrown, in fine silver, struck from false dies, in the style of Group II, 15.19g, carolvs: d:g: ma. br. fr. et. hib. rex:, King on horseback left, rev. i.m. tun, :christo: avspice: regno;, the g retrograde, oval-garnished shield, dividing cypher, arms transposed in fourth quarter (Brooker 1186, this coin), on lozenge shaped flan, very fine, rare

provenance
C Adams, Spink 177, 1 December 2005, lot 99
H Selig, part I, Spink 70, 31 May 1989, lot 196
J G Brooker, collection part-purchased by Spink, 1978
R C Lockett, part VII, Glendining, 4-6 November 1958, lot 3404 - "very fine, unique" - £60.0.0 (to Spink)
H Montagu, part II, Sotheby, 13 November 1896, lot 579 - £19.0.0 (to Lincoln)
H Webb, part I, Sotheby, 9-14 July 1894, lot 413 - "this is struck on a piece of silver of diamond shape, well preserved and extra rare" - £20.10.0 (to Lincoln)

Imitations struck from these dies are also known in base metal (cf. Adams, Spink 177, lot 100 and DNW 43, 8-9 October 1999, lot 631). Furthermore, at the Sotheby sale of 23 June 1898, lot 115 featured "an impression in pewter of a Tower Halfcrown, type 2c, m.m. on rev. ton", the dies of which the cataloguer added: "are said to have been found beneath the Houses of Parliament and that only two examples were struck, the second one being in the BM". In reality, the origins and meaning of these pieces remain unclear.

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