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Auction: 24005 - The Official Coinex Auction of Ancient, British and World Coins
Lot: 303

Charles I (1625-1649), Civil War Issues, Royalist Oxford, Three Pound Piece or Triple-Unite, 3 January - 24 March 1642, New Inn Hall, (p.m.) CAROLVS : D : G : MAG : BRIT : FRAN : ET : HI : REX, small crowned and armoured 'Shrewsbury' bust left, holding long sword and olive branch, plume with band behind, rev. : EXVRGAT : DEVS : DISSIPENTVR : INIMICI : : • : RELIG : PROT | LEG : ANG | LIBER : PAR in three-lined wavy scroll, three even plumes with bands and III above, 1642 below, 26.99g, 2h, p.m. plume (Rud. XIII, 9; Nelson II/I [BNJ, 1915], and Pl. III, nos. 3/1 same dies [albeit the combination not delineated]; Morrieson B-1; Beresford-Jones, dies III/S2 [21 Recorded]; Montagu -; Murdoch -; Schneider II, 286 same dies; Brooker 832 same dies; Motcomb II, 51 same dies; North 2381; S.2724), lightly cleaned and with an historic repair by A of MAG, otherwise handsomely uniform on a broad, road flan, a pleasingly bold very fine, very rare and wanting from the Montagu and Murdoch cabinets, with only twenty-one examples recorded from these dies, the most iconic albeit short-lived issue of the English Civil War

Provenance

By private treaty, £4,950
Christie, Manson and Woods, 5 April 1977, lot 97* - £4,000

George Hamilton-Smith, Glendining, 23-25 May 1927, lot 27* - "Three Pound Piece, 1642, Oxford, m.m. (obv.) plume, (rev.) pellets ‘+; five, reads FRAN : ET : HI: otherwise as preceding. Very fine, rare" - £25.0.0



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£26,000

Starting price
£18000