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Auction: 5033 - The Colin Adams Collection of Halfcrowns
Lot: 177

Charles I, Oxford mint, Halfcrown, 13.20g., 1643, Oxford horseman walking left, no ground-line below, Oxford plume below, rev. declaration RELIG PROT LE / ANG LIBER PA in two lines, three very crude Shrewsbury plumes above, date below, double/single pellet stops, four pellets before EXVRGAT, m.m. Oxford plume on obverse only (JGB 885-7 (same obv. die); Morr. A-16 var. ; N.2413; S.2954) scratched on both sides, rather weak on horseman, fine, the reverse variety very rare Estimate £ 250-300PROVENANCE: P Hunt, portion of collection purchased privately by Colin Adams, March 2000 The obverse of this coin is struck from one of the two Oxford dies sent to Bristol in 1643 (cf. note to lot 177 above, and at Bristol, lot 196 below). The reverse is of extremely crude work and corresponds to Morr. dies 15-16, BNJ XVI, p.144. Morrieson suggests that these reverse dies have the appearance of the first work of an apprentice, and that the coins struck from them might be taken for forgeries, were they not of apparently of good metal and struck from an official obverse die.

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