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Auction: 23005 - The "Haddenham" Collection of English Coins
Lot: 551

The 'Haddenham' Collection of English Coins | Charles I (1625-1649), Group III, Type 3a, Crown, 5 May 1638 - 3 July 1639, Tower (under King), (m.m.) • CAROLVS • D.' G.' MAG.' BR.' FR.' ET • HI.' REX ••:•• third horseman King trotting left, sword upright, no ground line, rev. (m.m.) •:• CHRISTO • AVSPICE • REGNO •:• N inverted in REGNO, oval shield with five even 'barrel' garniture, 29.99g [462.8grns], 2h, m.m. anchor [to right, straight flukes over tun / rounded flukes] (Hawkins 3a; Francis 3a [no. 34]; FRC XVII*/XXIV [sale lot 80 this coin]; Brooker 262 same dies; Thorpe [1921], 91 same dies; Parsons [1929], 517 same dies; Paget 78 same dies; Raynes = Nightingale 52 same dies; Lockett 3389 same dies; North 2195; Spink 2758), slightly doubled by REX and rubbed on softly-struck portrait, otherwise richly toned, good fine / very fine, scarce

Provenance

T Mathews, by private treaty, 1990 - £275

'West Country Collector' [F R Cooper], Glendining, 8 November 1978, lot 80 - horseman smoothed, otherwise about very fine, the obverse mint-mark clear - £300 [with his ticket, stating:]

Baldwin, by private treaty, August 1968 - £70.0.0

H A Parsons, Second Collection, Glendining, 11-13 May 1954, lot 423* - "very fine for this, rare - £9.10.0 [Spink]



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Sold for
£1,500

Starting price
£320