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Auction 157  21 Mar 2019
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Lot 50

Estimate: 500 GBP
Price realized: 700 GBP
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The Collection of Halfcrowns Formed by Brian Dawson

Charles I (1625-1649), Oxford mint, Halfcrown, 1642, mm. Oxford plume on obv. only, Shrewsbury horseman, no plume behind, high ground line below (a Shrewsbury die), three Oxford plumes above Declaration, date below, reads inimi, 14.26g/7h (Bull 590/4E (Ox.1-6-4r), this coin; Morr. B-4; SCBI Brooker 878; N 2409; S 2950). On a large flan, good fine, rare £500-£700

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This coin is illustrated in H.W. Morrieson's article 'The Coinage of Oxford, 1642-46' (BNJ XVI [1921-2], pl. III, 31). It was quite possibly the first coin in lot 517 of the Morrieson sale, but this cannot now be proven
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