Watch List notes:

STUART. Charles I. 1625-1649. AR Crown (41mm, 29.45 g, 5h). Declaration type. Shrewsbury mint. Dated 1642. · CAROLVS : D : G : MAG : BRIT · FRAN · ET · HIBER · REX, Charles on horseback left, holding reins and raised sword; plumes to right / ·:·:· EXVRGAT : DEVS : DISSIPENTVR : INIMICI, RELIG · PROT · LEG/ANG · LIBER · PAR in two lines between two parallel lines; above, three plumes above ·V·; I642 below. Morrieson, Shrewsbury, dies B/5; Brooker 809 (same dies); North 2370; SCBC 2926. Near VF, once cleaned, now retoning, flan somewhat irregular.


From the Ian Gordon Collection (acquired in York, 1994).