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Auction: 5033 - The Colin Adams Collection of Halfcrowns
Lot: 175

Charles I, Oxford mint, Halfcrown, 14.14g., 1643, Oxford horseman, larger equestrian portrait of the king in armour left, holding sword upright, horse with near foreleg raised, no ground-line below, Oxford plume behind, reads MAG BRIT FR ET HIB, rev. declaration RELIG:PROT:LEG ANG:LIBER:PAR in two lines, three Oxford plumes above, date below, double pellet stops, m.m. Oxford plume on obverse only (JGB 883 (same dies); Morr. A-3; N.2413; S.2954) small edge cracks at 2 and 8 o´clock, otherwise deeply toned, with an excellent horseman, good very fine Estimate £ 800-1,000PROVENANCE: H M Lingford, collection purchased en bloc by Baldwin, 1951 R D Beresford-Jones, Spink Auction 108, 7 March 1995, lot 563 The ´Oxford´ horseman is usually distinguished from the ´Shrewsbury´ horseman by the fact that the horse is on opposing legs, the near rather than the off foreleg being raised. In fact the whole equestrian portrait has been reworked, the horse is larger and more statuesque, and the figure of the king is taller and straighter-backed with the effect that he no longer appears slumped in the saddle.

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