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Auction: 5033 - The Colin Adams Collection of Halfcrowns
Lot: 270

Commonwealth, Halfcrown, 14.42g., 1657, shield of St. George within a wreath, rev. conjoined shields of St. George and Ireland, value above, m.m. sun on reverse only (ESC -; N.2722; S.3215) lightly double struck on reverse, deep black, slightly porous surfaces, otherwise almost very fine, the date crisply struck, of great rarity Estimate £ 2,500-3,000PROVENANCE: Thames Find, 1995 Baldwin´s Auctions no.14, 13 October 1997, lot 432 H E Manville, Spink Auction 154, 12 July 2001, lot 17 It is a very rare occurrence indeed for a new date to turn up in the Commonwealth series. The remarkable 1995 Thames find, quite possibly lost by a recalcitrant Parliamentarian fleeing the Restoration, included 377 Commonwealth silver coins, probably the largest such group ever to be found. Amongst these were two Halfcrowns of the previously unknown date 1657. This coin is the finer of the two.

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