Watch List notes:

NGC MS62 | Commonwealth (1649-1660), Half-Unite or Double Crown, 1653, Tower, . THE . COMMONWEALTH . OF . ENGLAND . (m.m.), English shield within palm and laurel wreath, rev. . GOD . WITH . VS . 1653, conjoined shields of England and Ireland, .X. above, 4.54g, 1h, m.m. sun (on obv. only) (Spink 3210; North 2717), some weakness to legends and devices, adjustment marks to reverse between shields, otherwise with a somewhat flashy lustre and toned, very fine, rare, in NGC holder, graded MS62 (Cert. #6380975-002).
Provenance
Lord Stewartby, Spink 246, 28 April 2017, lot 1949 - 'a bold very fine, rare'
A H Baldwin, by private treaty, July 2004
Estimate: £6,000.00 - £8,000.00