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Auction: 5033 - The Colin Adams Collection of Halfcrowns
Lot: 170

Charles I, Shrewsbury mint, Halfcrown, 15.04g., 1642, Shrewsbury horseman walking left, ground-line below, no plume behind, reads MAG BRIT FR ET HIB, rev. declaration RELIG:PROT:LEG ANGL:LIBER:PARL in two lines, three bushy Shrewsbury plumes above, date below, double pellet/pellet stops, group of eleven pellets before EXVRGAT, m.m. plume on obverse only (JGB 826 (same obv. die); Morr. F-unpublished; N.2378; S.2934) some hairline scratches on obverse, weak in parts, otherwise almost as struck, very fine or better, rare Estimate £ 800-1,000PROVENANCE: H M Lingford, collection purchased en bloc by Baldwin, 1951 The largest group of reverse pellets recorded by Morrieson is nine.

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