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Auction: 21064 - The Horace Hird Collection of Tudor, Stuart and Commonwealth Coins and Patterns
Lot: 40

MS66 | Charles I (1603-1625), Civil War Issues, Royalist Oxford, Unite [of 20-Shillings], 1644, (p.m.) CAROLVS • D : G : MAG : BRI : FR : ET • HIB : REX, neat crowned and armoured bust left, holding long sword and olive branch, XX behind, rev. • EXVRGAT DEVS • DISSIPENTVR • INIMICI • RELIG : PROT : | LEG :• ANG : | LIBER : PAR in continuous three-lined scroll, three even plumes with bands above, 1644 OX in two lines below, 9.06g [139.8grns], 9h, p.m. plume (HCN 281; Beresford-Jones, dies X/18; Brooker 853 same dies; Schneider II, 325 same dies; North 2389; Spink 2735), some partial striking softness to peripheries, otherwise a beautiful example, handsomely uniform with hints of ochre-orange tone accentuating underlying mint lustre, a most pleasing extremely fine and much as issued, exceptional for type, very rare thus, in NGC 'Horace Hird' holder, graded MS66 (Cert. #6135299-040)

Provenance
A Lost Parcel from the Celebrated Horace Hird Collection
Baldwin, 15 September 1959 - £45.0.0
Dr Carter, collection purchased en bloc by Baldwin, 1950


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£60,000

Starting price
£6000