Watch List notes:

STUART. Charles I. 1625-1649. AR Halfcrown (41mm, 15.17 g, 5h). Exeter mint; im: rose/castle. Dated 1645. (rose) CAROLVS · D · G · MA · BR · FR · ET · HI · REX, Charles on horseback facing slightly left, holding sword and reins / (castle) CHRISTO : AVSPICE : REGNO : 1645, coat-of-arms. Besly N49.3 = Bull 665/49 = Brooker 1057 = R.C. Lockett, "Notes on the Mints of Truro and Exeter Under Charles I," in BNJ XXII (1933-1937), 21 and pl. VI, 48 = (this coin); North 2569; SCBC 3077. A little ghosted, otherwise an attractive specimen. Richly toned. Near EF. Rare.

Ex John G. Brooker Collection, 1057 (purchased en bloc by Spink, 1986); R. C. Lockett Collection (English Part II, Glendining, 11 October 1956), lot 2525; G. Hamilton-Smith Collection (Glendining's, 21 May 1919), lot 68; Cumberland Clark Collection (Sotheby, Wikinson, & Hodge, 22 January 1914), lot 138; Elliot Fox Collection.