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Auction: 23005 - The "Haddenham" Collection of English Coins
Lot: 599

The 'Haddenham' Collection of English Coins | Charles I (1625-1649), Civil War Issues, Royalist Oxford, 'Declaration' Halfcrown, 1646, 'Last Period', (m.m.) CAROLVS • D : G : MAG : BRIT : FRAN : ET • HIB : REX • neater squat horseman King trotting left, sword upright, plume behind sash with bands, pebbly ground below, rev. :•: EXVRGAT •:• DEVS • DISSIPEN • INIMISI [sic], Wellington Declaration reading: RELIG • PROLEG | ANG • LIBER PAR in two lines, •1•6•4•6• | • O below [sic], three even Oxford plumes divided by four pellets above, 14.12g [217.8grns], 8h, m.m. plume [on obv. only] (Bull 628/B [Oxford Mint, 2023], [mmE-D / I- •D] [Ox. 10-2-p-14PN-7-I] this coin; Morrieson obv. die C; Brooker 922-923; Stewartby 1844 same dies; Dawson 64; North 2434; Spink 2961), small striking splits and traces of doubling on an irregular flan, resultant weakness to peripheries, much residual lustre and die striations in obverse field, the obverse somewhat untidy but remarkably struck up for this seldom encountered variety, about very fine for issue, the reverse better, very rare

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