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Auction: 21122 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 8: The Rymer and Trajan Collection of English and World Coins
Lot: 5385

The Rymer Collection | Charles I (1625-1649), Civil War Issues, Unattested Royalist Mint, Halfcrown, (Salopia ?), c. 1644-1646, King on horseback left, grass beneath, reads MAG BRI FR ET HI, rev. CHRISTO AVSPICE REGNO, pellet or annulet stops, crowned round shield of arms, 14.95g, m.m. lis [on obverse only] (Allen [1938] K-55 ~ 'Weymouth and Salisbury'; Lockett 4587 same dies; Brooker 1167 same obverse die; Bull 677/55; North 2609; Adams 239 this coin; Spink 3127), struck on a large and irregular oblong flan, with resultant weakness to parts of legend, the crude horseman otherwise clear, almost very fine, very rare, the die pairing excessively so

Provenance
The Rymer Collection
SJA 15, 30 September 2010, lot 64
Richardson, FPL (New Year 2009, no. 50 - £4,500); (Winter 2007, no. 57 - £4,900); (Spring 2006, no. 74 - £5,500)
Colin Adams, Spink 177, 1 December 2005, lot 239

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Sold for
£5,200

Starting price
£4500