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Auction: 3024 - The Slaney Collection of English Coins
Lot: 55

Charles I, Shrewsbury mint, Halfpound, 60.03g., 1642, m.m. nine/four pellets, king crowned and in armour holding sword upright, on horseback left, plume behind, no ground below, rev. declaration relig:prot:leg angl:liber:parl in two lines, three Shrewbury plumes and value above, date below, exurgat deus dissipentur inimici (Morr. B-4; JGB 800 (same dies); N.2364; S.2920), an unusually neat and well struck example, slightly off-centre on reverse, otherwise extremely fine, very rare in this condition Estimate £2,500-3,000 provenance: T Dimsdale, Sotheby, 6 July 1824, lot 1135 T Thomas, Sotheby, 23 February 1843, lot 600 Rev. T F Dymock, Sotheby, 1 June 1858, lot 322 R M Murchison, Sotheby, 27 June 1864, lot 283 J B Bergne, Sotheby, 20 May 1873, lot 726 W Brice, collection purchased en bloc by H Montagu H Montagu, Sotheby, 13 November 1896, lot 539 J G Murdoch, Sotheby, 8 June 1903, lot 86 G Hamilton-Smith, Glendining, 23 May 1927, lot 257 E E Yates, collection purchased en bloc by Baldwin, 1938 H M Lingford, Glendining, 24 October 1950, lot 144 J D Cuff, in his annotated copy of the Dimsdale catalogue, notes against lot 1135 "This was of fine work nearly equal to the 20/-, is ten to one scarcer and was in fine preservation, (it) may be said to have sold very cheap". It realised £6-10-0

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