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Auction: 22109 - The David Hoover Collection of Crowns: 1551-1953
Lot: 2028

(x) NGC VF30 | Charles I (1625-1649), Civil War Issues, Shrewsbury, 'Declaration' Half-Pound of 10-Shillings, 1642, CAROLVS : D : G : MAG : BRIT : FRAN : ET : HI : REX • (i.m.), armoured King on horseback left, horse plain, trampling arms amongst grassy ground below, rev. : EXVRGAT : DEVS : DISSIPENTVR : INIMICI, RELIG • PROT • LEG | ANG • LIBER • PAR in two lines, value and three Shrewsbury plumes above, 1642 below, 59.63g, 10h, i.m. plume / - (Morr. F-3; Brooker 804; North 2368; Spink 2924), the usual die 'cud' flaw at 4 o'clock and small edge fault at reverse 10 o'clock, an historic scuff before sword and the odd metal fleck around portrait in otherwise handsomely cabinet toned fields, a remarkably well-balanced example for this iconic Royalist issue, about very fine, and scarcely found so presentable, in NGC holder, perhaps conservatively graded VF30 (Cert. #4444010-001)

Provenance
CNG XXV, 1993, lot 1181 - £770
Sotheby's, 8 October 1992, lot 970 - £550
Believed to be:
H A Parsons, Glendining, 11-13 May 1954, lot 457 - £12.10.0
https://www.ngccoin.com/certlookup/4444010-001/30/

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Sold for
£3,500

Starting price
£2800