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21–23 September 2016

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Lot

№ 907

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22 September 2016

Hammer Price:
£2,200

Worcester mint, Halfcrown, mm. leopard’s head (?) on obv. only, clumsy horseman left, no groundline below, rev. crowned oval garnished shield, six-pointed stars in legend, 14.31g/8h (Bull 671/27; Allen E-27; Brooker 1155; N 2596; S 3105). Nearly very fine, toned, excessively rare; one of only three known £2,400-3,000

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

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Provenance: A. Morris Collection [from Baldwin March 1990]; bt L. Bennett.

The two other specimens are in the British Museum and that formerly in the Lockett collection (2545)