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Auction: 23005 - The "Haddenham" Collection of English Coins
Lot: 601

The 'Haddenham' Collection of English Coins | Charles I (1625-1649), Civil War Issues, Royalist Oxford, 'Declaration' Halfcrown, 1643, 'Intermediate Period', (m.m.) CAROLVS : D : G : MAG : BR : FR : ET : HIB : REX : Briot's squat horseman King trotting left, sword upright, large central plume behind sash with bands, rough and grassy ground line, rev. • EXVRGAT • DEVS • DISSIPENTVR • INIMICI Wellington Declaration reading: RELI • PROT • LE | ANG • LIB • PAR in two lines, 1643 | OX below, three even Oxford plumes above, 13.97g [215.4grns], 9h, m.m. rosette [on obv. only] (Bull 608/D [Oxford Mint, 2023], [X-I / I-E] [Ox. 13-27-*-D23p-11-M] this coin; Morrieson J-27; Brooker 900 this coin; Dawson - [cf. 56]; North 2416; Spink 2956), struck on an irregular small flan with resultant peripheral weakness, otherwise richly cabinet toned with a trace of doubling, a pleasing very fine with an excellent pedigree

Provenance

T Mathews, by private treaty, Winter 1985 - £260

Glendining, 15 October 1985, lot 331* - irregular flan but very fine and toned - £170

J G Brooker, collection dispersed through SNC, from 1978 (Sylloge no. 900)

Spink, by private treaty - £7.10.0
V J E Ryan, Part II, Glendining, 22-24 January 1952, lot 1243

G Hamilton-Smith, Part III, Glendining, lot 339a [part] - fine and scarce - £11.0.0

Baldwin, by private treaty with Hamilton-Smith

W Talbot-Ready, Sotheby, 15-19 November 1920, lot 687 [part] - "finer than usual" - £12.10.0 [Baldwin]



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Starting price
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