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Auction: 5033 - The Colin Adams Collection of Halfcrowns
Lot: 248

Charles I, Welsh Marches mint (1644), Halfcrown, 14.43g., crude equestrian portrait of the king, holding sword upright and walking left, no marks in field, CARLOVS D G MAG BRI FR ET HI REX, rev. declaration RELIG:PROT LE:AN:LI:PA in two lines, three plumes above, date below, EXVRGAT DEVS DISSIPENTVR INIMICI, double pellet stops, m.m. plume (JGB 1212 (same dies); S.3135) an interesting piece of rude manufacture, off-centre on reverse, otherwise as struck, with an attractive old tone, very fine for this, very rare Estimate £ 1,800-2,000PROVENANCE: R Marsham, Sotheby, 19 November 1888, lot 655 S Rostron, Sotheby, 16 May 1892, lot 335 F G Hilton Price, Sotheby, 7 April 1910, lot 110 G Hamilton-Smith, Sotheby, 21 July 1913, lot 143 R C Lockett, Glendining, 26 April 1960, lot 4235 Despite the crude style and execution, this issue is of good silver and weight. It seems to have been made on a simple rocker press, like the Hartlebury Castle coins, and the form of the declaration, which follows the Bristol type, suggests a western origin. Besly places it as an official royalist issue from the Welsh Marches, Besly, ´Coins and Medals of the English Civil War´, p.68.

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