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Auction: 23005 - The "Haddenham" Collection of English Coins
Lot: 596

The 'Haddenham' Collection of English Coins | Charles I (1625-1649), Civil War Issues, Royalist Oxford, 'Declaration' Halfcrown, 1643, 'Intermediate Period', New Hall Inn, (m.m.) CAROLLVS • D • G • MA[G •] BRI • FRA • ET • HI • REX, Briot's squat horseman King trotting left, sword upright, plume behind sash with bands, rough and grassy ground line, rev. • EXVRGAT • DEVS • DISSIPENTVR • INIMICI Wellington Declaration reading: RELIG : PROT : LEG | ANG : LIBER : PAR in two lines, 1643 below, three even Oxford plumes above, 14.23g [220.0grns], 2h, m.m. plume [on obv. only] (Bull 604/B [Oxford Mint, 2023], [X-S / I-PE] [Ox. 1-2-p-D6c-11-IM] this coin; Morrieson obv. die H; Brooker 893-895; Dawson - [cf. 55]; North 2416; Spink 2956), test cut on reverse at 11 o'clock and traces of doubling to portrait, otherwise softly toned with hints of metal stressing by plume, strictly fair to almost fine / good fine, scarce, only two examples documented by Bull, the other in the British Museum collection, and this earmarked for acquisition by the Ashmolean

Provenance

T Mathews, by private treaty, 1984 - £175


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