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Auction: 5033 - The Colin Adams Collection of Halfcrowns
Lot: 57

James I, third coinage, Halfcrown, 14.57g., king crowned and in armour holding sword, on horseback right, groundline with cross-hatched grass below, rev. square garnished shield, m.m. lis (N.2122; S.2666) weakly struck in centres, attractively toned, with traces of gold/blue lustre, good fine, a very rare variety Estimate £ 400-500PROVENANCE: H W Morrieson, Sotheby, 20 November 1933, lot 372 H M Lingford, Glendining, 20 June 1951, lot 1250 Gordon Stanley Hopkins, Baldwin´s Auctions no.30, 7 May 2002, lot 605 Struck from the same obverse dies as lot 62 below

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