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Auction: 5033 - The Colin Adams Collection of Halfcrowns
Lot: 188

Charles I, Oxford mint, Halfcrown, 14.69g., 1643, Briot horseman walking left, grassy ground below, Oxford plume behind, reads MAG BR FR ET HIB, rev. declaration, RELIG.PRO.LE ANG.LIB.PAR, two Oxford plumes and large central plume above, date and OX below, double/single pellet stops, rosette before EXVRGAT, m.m. Oxford plume and rosette on obverse only (JGB 901A (same obv. die); Morr. K-25; N.2423; S.2963) slightly weak on horseman, almost very fine, rare Estimate £ 500-600This coin is struck from the same obverse die as lot 179 above. The die combination is not recorded by Morrieson, but there was an example in the Lockett collection, lot 4546.

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