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Auction: 5033 - The Colin Adams Collection of Halfcrowns
Lot: 99

Charles I, group II, contemporary forgery of a Halfcrown, 15.18g., in silver from false dies on a lozenge-shaped flan, type 2c, king in armour on a smaller horse left, plume on horse´s head, cross on housing, reads MA BR FR ET HIB, rev. draped oval garnished shield, between C R, retrograde G in REGNO, m.m. tun on reverse only (JGB 1186 (this coin); cf. N.2207; cf. S.2771) weakly struck in centres, otherwise very fine, a curious and handsome piece Estimate £ 250-300PROVENANCE: H Webb, Sotheby, 9 July 1894, lot 413 H Montagu, Sotheby, 13 November 1896, lot 579 R C Lockett, Glendining, 4 November 1958, lot 3404 J G Brooker, SCBI 33, no.1186 H Selig, Spink Auction 70, 31 May 1989, lot 196 Several examples of this curious piece survive. The others are on normal round flans, including lot 100, below, struck in pewter

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