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Auction: 5033 - The Colin Adams Collection of Halfcrowns
Lot: 190

Charles I, Oxford mint, Halfcrown, 14.23g., 1644, Briot horseman walking left, lumpy ground below, Oxford plume behind, 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 between two colons before EXVRGAT, m.m. rosette on obverse only (JGB 904 (this coin); Morr. A-11; N.2425; S.296) the flan irregular at 1 o´clock, otherwise attractively toned, with a pleasing underlying lustre, very fine, very rare for 1644 with mintmark rosette Estimate £ 600-800PROVENANCE: H J Surridge, collection purchased en bloc by Spink, 1973 J G Brooker, SCBI 33, no.904 Struck from the same obverse die as the last, lot 189 above.

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£600