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Auction: 23006 - The Official COINEX Auction at Spink
Lot: 145

Charles I (1625-1649), Civil War Issues, Shrewsbury, 'Declaration' Half-Pound of 10-Shillings, 1642, :•:•:• CAROLVS • D: G : MAG : BR : FRA : ET • HIB: REX, King on horseback left, plume behind, rev. EXVRGAT • DEVS • DISSIPENTVR • INIMICI •:• | RELIG: PROT: LEG | ANGL• LIBER: PARL (Declaration) in two lines, three Shrewsbury plumes and mark of value above, date below, 57.56g [888.28grns], 6h, m.m. nine pellets / four pellets (Morr. B-4; Brooker 801 same dies; North 2364; Spink 2920), light digs to field, and usual small splits to edge, otherwise toned and almost uniform, the centre scarcely fine, the peripheries very fine, and very rare as a 'true' Shrewsbury issue, the first to be offered in these rooms since 2003

Provenance

Dr J Hulett, Part I, DNW 142, 13 September 2017, lot 464 [with his ticket]

Croydon Coin Auction 96, 8 January 1992, lot 743

K R Wooster, Spink 85, 23 July 1991, lot 557

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Sold for
£2,300

Starting price
£1500