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Auction: 23005 - The "Haddenham" Collection of English Coins
Lot: 591

The 'Haddenham' Collection of English Coins | Charles I (1625-1649), Civil War Issues, Royalist Oxford, 'Declaration' Halfcrown, 1642, New Hall Inn, (m.m.) CAROLVS : D : G : MAG : BR : FR : ET : HIBER : REX, R over L in CAROLVS, 'Oxford' horseman King trotting left, sword upright, plume behind with bands, ground line below, rev. : EXVRGAT : DEVS : DISSIPENTVR : INIMICI • Wellington Declaration reading: RELIG : PROT : LEG | ANG : LIBER : PAR in two lines, 1642 below, three even Oxford plumes above, 15.22g [234.8grns], 12h, m.m. plume [on obv. only] (Bull 591/C [Oxford Mint, 2023], [X-IS / C-P] [Ox. 1-3-c-D6c-1-I] this coin; Morrieson C-3 [blundered P in PAR]; Brooker 880/- same obverse die; Dawson -; North 2411; Spink 2952), lightly scuffed on legs, otherwise lightly toned, centres a bolder fine, the peripheries very fine, scarce

Provenance

T Mathews, by private treaty, 1984 - £225



"Halfcrowns appear to form the largest bulk of the coins struck. Below I enumerate between 90 and 100 varieties of these, and there must be others that I have not yet come across which will turn up from time to time, and it can be taken as a moderate estimate that of these there are over one hundred dies in all . In this denomination there are found the greatest examples of that promiscuous and casual use of the dies t o which I have already drawn attention, namely, 1644 C is found with at least ten different reverses, and 1643 H with seven. In 1643 there are no less than eleven obverse and twenty-eight reverse dies, while in 1644 there are respectively seven and twenty."



Probably the first half-crowns were struck from dies brought from Shrewsbury, but new reverses must have been quickly made, for they are found with the D and F obverses of Shrewsbury. The only alteration is in the form of the plume, a new iron being made for the purpose ; on the obverse, however, this new plume was used also as a mint-mark. As an exception to the rule there are more obverses than reverses, the numbers being respectively seven and five." (Morrieson, BNJ [1921], pp. 129-188)

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Sold for
£2,500

Starting price
£250