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Auction: 23005 - The "Haddenham" Collection of English Coins
Lot: 634

The 'Haddenham' Collection of English Coins | Commonwealth (1649-1660), Halfcrown, 1655, struck with false dies, in the style of the Tower Mint, • THE • COMMONWEALTH • OF • ENGLAND •, English shield within palm and laurel wreath, rev. • 1655 • GOD • WITH • VS, • II • VI • above conjoined shields of England and Ireland, 14.12g [218.0grns], 12h, m.m. sun [on obv. only] (cf. Bull 48; cf. ESC 436; North 2722; Spink 3215), light porosity and rich 'Blackfriars Bridge (Thames) tone, slightly blistering on a dumpy flan, otherwise a bolder fine, an interesting contemporary forgery of this excessively rare date

Provenance

T Mathews, by private treaty, 1999 - ££95
Blackfriars Bridge Hoard, 1997

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