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Auction: 22109 - The David Hoover Collection of Crowns: 1551-1953
Lot: 2030

(x) Charles I (1625-1649), Civil War Issues, Oxford, 'Declaration' Pound of 20-Shillings, 1643 over 2, CAROLVS : D : G : MAGNI : BRITANI : FRAN : ET : HIB : REX, armoured King on horseback left, horse plain, large plume behind, broken arms trampled underfoot, rev. •:•:• EXVRGAT : DEVS : DISSIPENTVR : INIMICI, RELIG • PROT • LEG | ANG • LIBER • PAR in two lines, value and three Shrewsbury plumes above, 1643/2 below, 119.80g, 4h, m.m. plume / seven pellets (Morr. B-1, lot 403; Brooker 863A; North 2398; Spink 2940), the fields gently smoothed in antiquity with residually sporadic marks in fields, cabinet retoned, a really bold fine, the peripheries very fine, rare with the date alteration

Provenance
Baldwin, by private treaty, ref. C190013070 - £17,950
The New York Sale XLIII, 10 January 2018, lot 1089 [unsold] - wherein graded PCGS XF40 (Cert. #34313344)
The St. Petersburg Collection, Heritage Long Beach, 2 June 2006, lot 13096 - $7,000
SNC, October 1992, no. 5923 - £2,600
SNC, February 1992, no. 220 - VF+ and rare - £2,750

Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.

Sold for
£9,000

Starting price
£7000