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Auction 22004  23 Jan 2022
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Lot 191

Starting price: 3000 GBP
Price realized: 9500 GBP
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The Lost Collection of Simon English Esq. | Charles I (1625-1649), Civil War Issues, Royalist Oxford, 'Declaration' Half-Unite or Double Crown, 1643, New Hall Inn, CAROLVS • D : G : M : BR : FR : ET • HI : REX • larger crowned and draped bust left, with protuberant and rounded proboscis, rev. EXVRGAT • DEVS • DISSIPENTVR • INIMICI • RELIG • PROT • LEG • ANGL • • LIBER • PAR • on continuous scroll, second I over erroneous third S in DISSIPENTVR, three even plumes above, 1643 below, 4.52g [69.6grns], 9h, no m.m. (Huth 110 same dies; Hamilton-Smith 47; Briggs 22 same dies; Brooker 858 same dies; North 2395; Spink 2742), lightly cleaned and smoothed to fields before face, with further small metal defects in centre of reverse, otherwise residually lustrous, a broad striking on a remarkably full flan, struck details a handsomely bold very fine, rare in this grade.
Provenance
The Lost Collection of Simon English Esq.
Spink, by private treaty, 20 November 1973 - £1,500
Estimate: £4000 - £6000
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