Watch List notes:

STUART. Charles I. 1625-1649. AR Halfcrown (36mm, 15.22 g, 1h). Declaration type. Oxford mint; im: plume. Dated 1643. (plume) CAROLVS : D : G : MAG : BRIT : FR : ET : HIB : REX, Charles on horseback left, holding sword in right hand and reins in left (Oxford horseman); plume to right / : DEVS : DISSIPENTVR : INIMICI : EXVRGAT, RELIG : PROT : LEG/ ANG : LIBER : PAR in two lines across central field, line above and below; three plumes above, 1643 below. Morrieson, Oxford A/3; Bull 597/3a (this coin cited, p. 398); Brooker 887/890 (same obv./rev. dies); North 2413; SCBC 2954. Slightly double struck on an exceptionally broad flan. Richly toned. EF. Rare, especially so in this high grade.

Ex Spink Numismatic Circular CXIII.4 (August 2005), no. 2203; Spink 76 (24 May 1990), lot 76; H.H. Snellenburg Jr. Collection (purchased en bloc by Spink, 1965); F.W. Walters Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson, & Hodge, 26 May 1913), lot 647.