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Auction: 5033 - The Colin Adams Collection of Halfcrowns
Lot: 178

Charles I, Oxford mint, Halfcrown, 15.22g., 1643, Oxford horseman walking left, ground-line below, Oxford plume behind, reads MAG BRIT FR ET HI, rev. declaration RELIG:PROT:LE ANG:LIBER:PA in two lines, three Oxford plumes, date below, double/single pellet stops, two pellets before EXVRGAT, m.m. Oxford plume on obverse only (JGB 891 (same dies); Morr. E-1 var.; N.2415; S.2955) a handsome toned coin, with an attractive underlying golden/red lustre, good very fine, rare thus Estimate £ 800-1,000PROVENANCE: R D Beresford-Jones, Spink Auction 108, 7 March 1995, lot 571

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