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Auction: 5033 - The Colin Adams Collection of Halfcrowns
Lot: 157

Charles I, York mint, Halfcrown, 10.41g., type 7, tall equestrian portrait of king in armour left, holding sword upright, horse´s tail flows between legs, EBOR below, reads MAG BRT FRAN ET HIB, rev. crowned oval shield with lion-skin garniture, m.m. lion (JGB -; Besly 2C; N.2315; S.2869) on a very small flan, smoothed on edge, fine, rare reading BRT Estimate £ 150-200PROVENANCE: Dix Noonan Webb, Auction 49, 21 March 2001, lot 166 Coins at the York mint were struck on a cylinder-press, the 23 Halfcrown die-pairings requiring the use of four sets of cylinder-dies, three sets each with six die-pairs, and one set with five die-pairs. It might be expected that a similar number of coins would survive from each die-pair on a cylinder set, but his does not seem to be the case. While Besly notes 13 coins from die-pair 2A, and 11 coins from die-pair 2B, he could only trace three examples of this variety, die-pair 2C, struck from the same cylinder-dies, BNJ 1984, p.225.

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