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Auction: 23005 - The "Haddenham" Collection of English Coins
Lot: 549

The 'Haddenham' Collection of English Coins | Charles I (1625-1649), Group I, Type 1b1, Welsh 'Plumes' Crown, 29 June 1626 - 27 April 1627, Tower (under King), with bullion supplied by Welsh Mines, (m.m.) • CAROLVS D.' G.' MAG.' BRI.' FR.' ET HIB.' REX • first horseman King trotting left, ornately decorated caparison, sword over right shoulder breaking inner circle, plume on head-dress and on housing, rev. (m.m.) CHRISTO AVSPICE REGNO :• smaller lettering than obverse, square-topped and garnished shield surmounted by large plume, 29.80g [459.8grns], 10h, m.m. cross calvary over lys [both sides] (Hawkins 1b; Francis 1b [no. 11]; FRC II*/VI* [Sale, lot 50 - 'fair']; Brooker 237 = Lingford 85 this coin; Neck = Webb -; Montagu -; Murdoch -; Lockett - [cf. 2252/2253 same dies]; SCMB, June 1980, F321 = Glendining, 4 March 1981, lot 134 same dies; North 2191; Spink 2754), some faint metal stressing in otherwise richly cabinet toned fields, hints of residual lustre in recesses, a pleasingly good fine, vastly superior to the Cooper reference example, excessively rare, only three examples traced, this by far the finest known

Provenance

T Mathews, by private treaty, 1985 - £600

F Gilboy, Glendining, 1 May 1985, lot 43* - good fine, rare - £290

J G Brooker, dispersed by Spink through Numismatic Circular, from 1978

W B Thorpe, second collection of 275 Crowns acquired en bloc by Spink, January 1952 [sold before listing in SNC, March 1952]

H M Lingford, Part I, Glendining, 24-26 October 1950, lot 85 - "very fine for this and very rare" - £42.0.0 [Baldwin]

Lt.-Col. H. W. Morrieson, Glendining, 20-24 November 1933, lot 423* and Pl. VII. - [different plume to last], "rather fine, extremely rare" - £11.10.0 [Spink for Lingford]

T Wakley, Sotheby's, 6 December 1909, lot 40 - very fine and rare - £5.0.0 [Spink for Morrieson]

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Sold for
£5,800

Starting price
£900