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Auction: 23004 - Ancient and British Coins - Featuring the 'White Rose' Collection
Lot: 514

Charles I (1625-1649), Civil War Issues, Royalist Oxford, 'Declaration' Pound, 1642, New Hall Inn, (m.m) CAROLVS · D G : MAGNI · BRIT · FRAN : ET : HIB : REX : Shrewsbury horseman trampling, cannon in arms below, plume behind, chequered ground in exergue, rev. ·:·:· EXVRGAT : DEVS : DISSIPENTVR : INIMICI, RELIG PROT · LEG | ANG LIBER · PAR in two lines, three Oxford plumes, value and date below, 120.24g [1855.4grns], 5h, m.m. plume / seven pellets (Hawkins pp. 322, no. 3; Morr. D/2 [cf. BNJ, 1921, Pl. 1, no. 4 same dies;]; Rashleigh 884 = Morrieson [1933], 400 same dies; extremely fine, an exceedingly rare variety of obverse; Montagu 490 = Bliss [1916], 428 a crack at edge of flan, a very rare variety, same dies; Lingford 159 same dies; Lockett 2435 same dies; Brooker 862; North 2400; Spink 2941), a small edge cut at 4 o'clock and minor rim bruising oft encountered with this formidable dinner-plate of silver, besides the Triple-Unite, the most iconic issue of the English Civil War, lightly cleaned and doubled, now retoned, about very fine, with traces of red wax in recesses, a celebrated type, the 'cross-hatching' in exergue an extremely rare variant, this considerably finer than the Lingford plate coin

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