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Auction: 7030 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins & Comm Medals
Lot: 256

x Charles I, Shrewsbury mint, 1642, Pound, 119.3g, 1642, m.m. pellets, king crowned and holding sword riding left, Shrewsbury plume behind, field below plain, rev. Declaration between two lines, above, xx with three Shrewsbury plumes, below, 1642 (cf. Brooker 796- same dies; N.2361; S.2917), flan edge crack on obverse at ten o´clock, flan marks above head of horse and by hooves, double struck in places, a pleasing example better than the Brooker coin, very fine, rare Estimate £ 3,500-4,500 Provenance Whittaker, Sotheby, 2-4 May, 1894, lot 101 Bascom, Sotheby, 15 June 1914, lot 170 JCS Rashleigh, Glendining, 10 June 1953, lot 246

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