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Auction: 20004 - British Coins and Commemorative Medals: Spring Auction - conducted behind CLOSED DOORS
Lot: 236

Charles I (1625-49), Triple-Unite, 1642, Civil War issues, Oxford, 26.82g, m.m. Oxford plume on obverse only, carolvs: d: g: mag: brit: fran: et: hi: rex, tall narrow crowned half-length bust of the king in armour holding sword in right hand and shouldering an olive branch held in left hand, plume by head, rev. .exvrgat: devs: dissipentvr: inimici, Declaration on continuous scroll relig: prot legi: ang liber: par, date below, value between pellets above with three Oxford plumes (Beresford-Jones III/L1; Brooker 834 same dies and cf. 832-834A same obverse die; cf. Schneider II, 286-289 same obverse die and 297 same reverse die; N.2382; S.2724), well centred on a large flan, an attractive extremely fine, very rare

provenance
'Burford collection', Heritage, 7 January 2018, lot 32260
SJA 22, 1 October 2012, lot 417
M&M AG, 10 June 2004, lot 451
J H Barns, Sotheby, 26 June 1974, lot 170
Sir Kenyon Vaughan Morgan, Sotheby, 17 June 1935, lot 235

This is an extremely rare coin, with the narrow hunch-backed portrait made with the punches brought to Oxford from the Shrewsbury mint here combined with the first reverse produced by the engraver newly arrived at Oxford from the London mint. The engraver clearly had the intention to make the scroll continuous, but he has kept just by a whisker too closely to the inner circle and so has misjudged the space where the outer and inner legends meet. The space between inimici and relig is therefore left blank, with no top edge to the scroll. The error is corrected on his very similar die dated 1643.

It is also notable that this is the only occasion that legi appears in the Declaration.

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Sold for
£57,000

Starting price
£50000