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Auction: 23005 - The "Haddenham" Collection of English Coins
Lot: 587

The 'Haddenham' Collection of English Coins | Charles I (1625-1649), Civil War Issues, Royalist Shrewsbury, 'Declaration' Half-Pound of 10-Shillings, 1642, (i.m.) CAROLVS : D : [G :] MAG : BRIT : FRAN : ET : HI : REX •, armoured King on horseback left, horse plain, trampling arms amongst grassy ground below, rev. : EXVRGAT : DEVS : DISSIPENTVR : INIMICI, Wellington Declaration in two lines reading RELIG • PROT • LEG | ANG • LIBER • PAR in two lines, value and three Shrewsbury plumes above, 1642 below, 59.63g [920.2grns, 8h, i.m. plume / - (Brooker 804 same dies; North 2368; Spink 2924), heavily and crudely repaired at site of planchet crack to date, the edges resultingly filled and smoothed, otherwise struck details bordering fine in most parts, an entry level gap filler of this ludicrous and popular Civil War oversized issue

Provenance

T Mathews, by private treaty, 1985 - £340

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Starting price
£200