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Auction: 7023 - The Glenister Collection of British Coins & other Ancient, English & Foreign Coins & Comm Medals
Lot: 497

Charles I, late ´Declaration´ issues, 1645-1646, Bridgenorth-on-Severn, Shilling, 5.29g, 1646, obverse A, m.m. plumelet over br obverse only, crowned bust left, plumelet before, xii behind, rev. two scrolls, Declaration in three lines below, large central plume dividing two plumelets above, date below Declaration (cf. Brooker 1128; N.2521; S.3040), slightly off centre, double struck in places in legends, strong declaration, very fine, rare Estimate £ 600-800 provenance SCMB May-October 1943, item 329 (£2-12-6). With an old ticket which uses the former attribution of Lundy Island for these coins. These date from after the surrender of Bristol on 11 September 1645, when Bristol and Oxford moneyers appear to have continued to work using altered Bristol dies and others bearing the marks, a, b and plume. Among the towns where Royalist forces continued to hold out was Bridgenorth-on-Severn, which capitulated on 26 April 1646. It is now accepted that this is the most likely site for the b marked late Declaration pieces.

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