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Auction: 20124 - Spink Numismatic Circular 4 - Halfcrowns, Florins and Shillings
Lot: 1632

Charles I (1625-49), Halfcrown, 1642, 'Declaration' type, Oxford, 'dumpy' Shrewsbury horseman and plume, no ground line, rev. three 'Oxford' plumes, date below, 13.99g, 5h, m.m. plume (BNJ, 1921, pl. III, no. 27 this coin = Morrieson G-3; Lockett 2450/-, same obverse die; Beresford-Jones 561 [= Hulett VI, 453], same dies; Bull 595/3 [Oxford 1-6-4a]; Brooker -; N.2411; Spink 2952), on a small flan, with usual die flaw above plume, otherwise attractive dark tone, good fine, an extremely rare die combination, this being the Morrieson reference coin, latterly unrepresented in the Brooker corpus

Provenance
Lt-Col. H W Morrieson, 20-24 November 1933, lot ???


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Estimate

Starting price
£450