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Auction: 22109 - The David Hoover Collection of Crowns: 1551-1953
Lot: 2020

(x) NGC XF45 | Charles I (1625-1649), Group II, Type 2a, Crown, 1632-1633, Tower (under King), (m.m.) • CAROLVS D.' G.' MAG.' BRIT.' FRA.' ET • HIB.' REX •:• smaller second horseman left, plume on headdress, sword over right shoulder, cross on housing, no ground line, rev. (m.m.) • CHRISTO •:• AVSPICE •:• REGNO •:• oval garnished shield over cross fourchée, dividing C-R above, 5h, m.m. harp [over rose over plume] / harp (Hawkins 2a; Francis 19a; FRC X*/XIV, lot 61; Brooker 246 same dies; Barr 392; North 2193; Spink 2755), radial striking softness through head dress and between ET HIB and after REX, a minor trace of doubling in BRIT, otherwise pleasingly cabinet toned, a wholesome very fine, with an excellent pedigree and laudatory qualities as a Murdoch plate coin, in NGC holder, graded XF45 (Cert. #2816137-001)

Provenance
LCA 157, 3-4 June 2017, lot 1847 - £4,800
LCA 156, 4 April 2017, lot 1679 [unsold]
H J Whitley, Glendining, 11-12 April 1956, lot 166* - extremely fine and rare - £20.0.0 [Spink for JHM]
Captain R D Wills, Glendining, 6-8 December 1938, lot 508* [part] - ...'extremely fine...' - £5.15.0 [Baldwin]
J G Murdoch, Second Portion, Sotheby’s, 8 June 1903, lot 95* [plate] - extremely fine and rare - £4.15.0



The Webb provenance attested at the Murdoch sale can now be removed from the provenance chain on account of that coin passing via the dealer Lincoln, to Henderson, whose collection was bequeathed to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge in 1936. Manuscript no. 926 confirming this conclusively.



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Sold for
£5,000

Starting price
£5000