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Auction: 23005 - The "Haddenham" Collection of English Coins
Lot: 595

The 'Haddenham' Collection of English Coins | Charles I (1625-1649), Civil War Issues, Royalist Oxford, 'Declaration' Halfcrown, 1643, New Hall Inn, (m.m.) CAROLVS : D : G : MAG : BRIT : FR : ET : HI : REX, 'Oxford' horseman King trotting left, sword upright, plume behind sash with bands, straight ground line below, rev. : EXVRGAT : DEVS : DISSIPENTVR : INIMICI, Wellington Declaration reading: RELIG : PROT : LE | ANG : LIBER : PA in two lines, 1643 below, three even Oxford plumes above, 14.90g [229.6grns], 2h, m.m. plume [on obv. only] (Bull 602/H [Oxford Mint, 2023], [E-D / C-S] [Ox. 1-2-p-D9c-3-N] this coin; Morrieson obv. die E / reverse unpublished; Brooker 891 this coin; Dawson - [cf. 54]; North 2415; Spink 2955), overtly double-struck on reverse with traces of die rust, on an irregular flan, otherwise richly cabinet toned, a sharper horseman, struck details approaching very fine

Provenance

T Mathews, by private treaty, 1985 - £185

Glendining, 1 May 1985, lot 56* - obverse about very fine, reverse double-struck, rare

J G Brooker, collection dispersed through SNC, from 1978 (Sylloge no. 891)

W E Ashley, collection purchased en bloc by Spink, 1969



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