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Auction: 3024 - The Slaney Collection of English Coins
Lot: 58

Charles I, Oxford mint, Crown, 28.42g., 1643, m.m. plume/six pellets, Oxford horseman left, over groundline with grass below, Oxford plume behind, rev. declaration relig:prot:leg ang:liber:par in two lines, three Oxford plumes and value above, date below (Morr. B-1; JGB 873 (same dies); N.2406; S.2947), good very fine for this, with an attractive light tone, very rare Estimate £2,000-2,500 provenance: Purchased Baldwin, 1949 The true Oxford crown, struck from two Oxford dies as distinct from Shrewsbury/Oxford mule struck using an obverse die transferred to Oxford from Shrewsbury in 1642, has tranditionally been regarded as a rare coin. Although only three times scarcer than the mule in absolute terms it is much more difficult than this would suggest to obtain in higher grade

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