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Auction: 5033 - The Colin Adams Collection of Halfcrowns
Lot: 75

Charles I, group I, Halfcrown, 14.90g., Tower, type 1a3, king in armour on horseback left, plumes on horse´s head and rump, no rose on housing, no groundline below, reads MAG BRI FR ET HIB, rev. lightly garnished square shield, m.m. castle (JGB -; N.2202; S.2766) slightly double struck on both sides, good fine, an extremely rare mintmark Estimate £ 500-600PROVENANCE: F A Walters, Sotheby, 26 May 1913, lot 600 H W Morrieson, Sotheby, 20 November 1933, lot 463 R C Lockett, Glendining, 11 October 1956, lot 2278 D Duprée, collection purchased en bloc by Spink, 1989 P Hunt, portion of collection purchased privately by Colin Adams, March 2000 The obverse mintmark is slightly double struck, it may be castle over a negro´s head, but this obverse die is not either of the attested negro´s head dies, JGB 290-1

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