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Auction: 5033 - The Colin Adams Collection of Halfcrowns
Lot: 150

Charles I, pattern Unite or Halfcrown, 13.39g., by Nicholas Briot, 1630, large bare-headed bust wearing falling lace collar left, reaching to bottom edge, CAR D G MAGN BRITAN FR ET HIB REX, rev. crowned garnished square shield, with crowned C R at sides, date above with B to left and small St. George and Dragon to right, AVSPICE REX MAGNE TVIS (JGB 1245 (same dies); M.I. 257/44; N.2661) an attractive piece, some wear on portrait, otherwise deeply toned, almost very fine, extremely rare with bare-headed bust Estimate £ 1,200-1,500PROVENANCE: British Museum duplicates G Hamilton-Smith, Glendining, 23 May 1927, lot 373 T B Clarke Thornhill, Glendining, 24 May 1937, lot 493 H M Lingford, collection purchased en bloc by Baldwin, 1951 Briot paired this very successful reverse die with four different obverse dies, two with bare-headed bust and two with crowned bust, to strike a handsome series of patterns in both gold and silver, N.2659-62; cf. JGB 1242-6. One gold striking, JGB 1243, is of correct weight and is clearly intended as a pattern unite. The weights of the others vary, JGB 1245 being 11.95g., so the intended denomination is not certain.

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