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Auction: 23005 - The "Haddenham" Collection of English Coins
Lot: 598

The 'Haddenham' Collection of English Coins | Charles I (1625-1649), Civil War Issues, Royalist Oxford, 'Declaration' Halfcrown, 1645, 'Last Period', (m.m.) CAROLVS • D : G : MAG : BRI : FRA : ET : HI : REX, Briot's squat horseman King trotting left, sword upright, plume behind sash with bands, lumpy ground line, rev. :•: EXVRGAT • DEV[S •] DISSIPENTVR • INIMICI, Wellington Declaration reading: RELIG : PRO : LE | ANG : LIB : PAR in two lines, 16-45 | OX below, three even Oxford plumes above, 14.22g [219.2grns], 7h, m.m. plume [on obv. only] (Bull 622/A [Oxford Mint, 2023], [EX-D / MI-P] [Ox. 2-4-p-D19c-10-NI] this coin; Morrieson A-3, [Sale, lot 534 same obverse die]; Brooker 912-913; Dawson - [cf. 60]; North 2424; Spink 2959), peripheral stress marking and some delamination at 5 o'clock, some minor striking softness at extremities on an irregular flan, otherwise richly cabinet toned with traces of residual lustre, the O of PRO struck flat, a pleasing very fine or better for issue, very rare with an excellent pedigree, one of only two specimens known to Bull from this die pairing, this by far the finer and thus earmarked for accession to the Ashmolean

Provenance

T Mathews, by private treaty, 1985 - £210

Lt.-Col. A E Bray O.B.E, M.C., Glendining, 1 May 1985, lot 130* - "very fine"

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

SNC, June 1955, no. 16376 - "as struck and a rare date, V.F." - £6.10.0 [with ticket in hand of Liddell]
H Farquhar, Glendining, 25 April 1955, lot 79 [part] - "fine and rare" - £15.0.0 [Spink]

F A Walters, Sotheby's, 26 May 1913, lot 649 [part] - "very fine and rare"

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Sold for
£4,200

Starting price
£250