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Auction: 5033 - The Colin Adams Collection of Halfcrowns
Lot: 193

Charles I, Oxford mint, Halfcrown, 14.60g., 1644, Briot horseman walking left, plain 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, billets either side of date and OX, double pellet/billet stops, billet between four pellets before EXVRGAT, m.m. Oxford plume and on obverse only (JGB 906(same obv. die); Morr. C-4 (this coin); N.2430; S.2965) the horseman struck in low relief, small scratch in obverse field, otherwise a pleasing coin, almost very fine, an extremely rare variety Estimate £ 800-1,000PROVENANCE: H W Morrieson, Sotheby, 20 November 1933, lot 530 R C Lockett, Glendining, 17 October 1961, lot 4549 N Asherson, Spink Auction 6, 10 October 1979, lot 70 P Hunt, portion of collection purchased privately by Colin Adams, March 2000 Struck from the same obverse die as the last, lot 192 above. No other example of this variety has been offered at auction since 1960.

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