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Tower mint, Halfcrown, Gp I, type 1a3, mm. castle, first horseman, housings decorated, no groundline below horse, rev. no cross over shield, 14.56g/6h (Bull 72/2; SCBI Brooker –; N 2202; S 2766). Scored on horse’s hind legs, otherwise fine, reverse better, excessively rare; one of only two known £600-800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Coins of Charles I From the Lyall Collection.

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Provenance: H. Webb Collection; T. Bliss Collection, Part II, Sotheby Auction, 15-19 May 1916, lot 369 (part); H.W. Morrieson Collection, Sotheby Auction, 20-4 November 1933, lot 463 (part); R.C. Lockett Collection, Part III, Glendining Auction, 4-6 November 1958, lot 3395; E. Burstal Collection, Glendining Auction, 15-16 May 1968, lot 264; C.G. Rowe Collection, Glendining Auction, 23 May 1984, lot 170; P. Earthy Collection; C. Adams Collection, Spink Auction 177, 1 December 2005, lot 74.

The other specimen, which is in the British Museum, is illustrated by G.R. Francis, BNJ XIII, 1917, pl. I, 5