Sovereign Rarities Ltd
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Charles I (1625-49), silver Halfcrown of Two Shillings and Sixpence, 1642, Shrewsbury Mint, armoured King on horseback left, crowned holding sword, with flowing sash, legend and beaded borders surrounding, initial mark Shrewsbury plume, CAROLVS: D: G: MAG: BRIT: FR: ET: HIB: REX:, rev. Declaration in two lines at centre between ruled lines RELIG: PROT: LEG / ANGL: LIBER: PARL, three Shrewsbury plumes above, date below, legend and beaded borders surrounding, initial mark nine pellets, EXVRGAT. DEVS. DISSIPENTVR. INIMICI:, weight 15.08g (Bull 588/11; Brooker 825/815; N.2378/2372; S.2934). Unevenly shaped in striking with some weakness and double striking, the eleven-pellet reverse seems to be the product of a 9 pellet double strike, toned good very fine though as struck and rare.
King Charles I arrived in Shrewsbury on the 20th September 1642 and ordered Thomas Bushell to move the Royalist Mint from the town of Aberystwyth where much silver was mined, to Shrewsbury. The Mint was moved and operational by early the following month, but activity only lasted there for 9-10 weeks, as by the 29th October King Charles was ordering Bushell to once again move the Mint to the City of Oxford. The move this time was much slower and it was not till the 3rd January 1642/3 that Thomas Bushell arrived with his by now quite mobile Mint in Oxford, where it was set up in New Inn Hall.
Provenance:
Ex A. H. Baldwin & Sons Ltd. October 1946.
Ex Herbert M. Lingford, portion of English collection purchased by A H Baldwin 1951.
Ex Colin Adams Collection of Halfcrowns, Spink Coin Auction 177, 1st December 2005, lot 170.
King Charles I arrived in Shrewsbury on the 20th September 1642 and ordered Thomas Bushell to move the Royalist Mint from the town of Aberystwyth where much silver was mined, to Shrewsbury. The Mint was moved and operational by early the following month, but activity only lasted there for 9-10 weeks, as by the 29th October King Charles was ordering Bushell to once again move the Mint to the City of Oxford. The move this time was much slower and it was not till the 3rd January 1642/3 that Thomas Bushell arrived with his by now quite mobile Mint in Oxford, where it was set up in New Inn Hall.
Provenance:
Ex A. H. Baldwin & Sons Ltd. October 1946.
Ex Herbert M. Lingford, portion of English collection purchased by A H Baldwin 1951.
Ex Colin Adams Collection of Halfcrowns, Spink Coin Auction 177, 1st December 2005, lot 170.