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Auction: 23051 - English Milled and Hammered Coins and Artefacts
Lot: 1130

Charles I (1625-1649), Civil War Issues, Royalist Oxford, 'Declaration' Half-Unite or Double Crown, 1643, New Hall Inn, CAROLVS • D : G : M : BR : FR : ET • HI : REX • larger crowned and draped bust left, with protuberant and rounded proboscis, rev. EXVRGAT • DEVS • DISSIPENTVR • INIMICI • RELIG • PROT • LEG • ANGL • • LIBER • PAR • on continuous scroll, second I over erroneous third S in DISSIPENTVR, three even plumes above, 1643 below, [Spink XRF: 91.28% Au; 6.00% Ag; 2.72% Cu], 4.374g [67.50grns], 11h, no m.m. (Beresford-Jones, dies III/5 [Sale, lot 127]; Farquhar 26 same dies; Brooker 858 same dies; Schneider II, 332 same dies; Marshall 26 same dies; LaRiviere [Spink 124], 1760; North 2395; Spink 2742), partial hints of striking softness, otherwise on a most pleasingly neat round flan, with handsome original fields interspersed with notes of lustres and hues of reddish-orange, a really good very fine, very rare

Provenance

Captain Ronald D Wills, Glendining, 6 December 1938, lot 95* - "extremely fine and very rare" - £10.10.0



Spink XRF Analysis (Conducted 2 October 2023, Olympus VANTA Series L, from which the reading is calculated)

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Sold for
£8,000

Starting price
£8000