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Auction: 5033 - The Colin Adams Collection of Halfcrowns
Lot: 180

Charles I, Oxford mint, Halfcrown, 14.47g., 1643, Briot horseman walking left, grassy ground below, Oxford plume behind, rev. declaration RELI.PRO.LE AHG.LIB.PAR in two lines, three Oxford plumes above, date and OX below, double pellet/rosette stops, m.m. Oxford plume on obverse only (JGB 898 (this coin); Morr. I-24; N.2416; S.2957) an unusually fine example, crisply struck on a full round flan, deeply toned, almost extremely fine, very rare thus Estimate £ 1,200-1,500PROENANCE: W Talbot Ready, Sotheby, 15 November 1920, lot 687 G Hamilton-Smith, Glendining, 23 May 1927, lot 339 V J E Ryan, Glendining, 22 January 1952, lot 1242 J G Brooker, SCBI 33, no.898

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