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Auction: 5033 - The Colin Adams Collection of Halfcrowns
Lot: 67

Charles I, group I, Halfcrown, 15.12g., Tower, type 1a2 var., king in armour on horseback left, plumes on horse´s head and rump, no rose on housing, groundline below, rev. long cross fourchée over garnished square shield, m.m. lis (JGB -; N.2201; S.2765) lightly scratched in obverse legend, otherwise very fine, an extremely rare variety with groundline Estimate £ 500-600PROVENANCE: J M Ashby, Spink Auction 145, 12 July 2000, lot 2035 Only one other example of this variety, the Raymond Carlyon-Britton piece, listed in Seaby´s Coin & Medal Bulletin, September 1961, no. HC13, appears to have been offered for sale since 1960

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