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Auction: 5033 - The Colin Adams Collection of Halfcrowns
Lot: 52

James I, third coinage, Halfcrown, 14.89g., king crowned and in armour holding sword, on horseback walking right, no groundline below, rev. square garnished shield, m.m. rose (N.2122; S.2666A) tiny piercing through Q of QVAE, otherwise an exceptionally well struck, full round coin, good very fine, extremely rare Estimate £ 1,000-1,200PROVENANCE: E C Carter, collection purchased en bloc by Baldwin, 1950 Seaby´s Coin & Medal Bulletin, May 1970, no. DC59 P Hunt, portion of collection purchased by Colin Adams, March 2000 Only one other example of this type, mintmark rose without groundline, has appeared at auction in the last fifty years, cf. Baldwin´s Auctions no.30, lot 604. Both coins are struck from the same obverse die as lot 51 above, prior to alteration, and from the same reverse die as lot 50 above. Their unusually high quality suggests that they may well be a prototype or finework pieces. The experimental nature of this very small issue at the beginning of the third coinage is show by the fact that lots 50-52, and the Duprée coin, are struck from different combinations of just two pairs of dies

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