The 'Haddenham' Collection of English Coins | Charles I (1625-1649),

The 'Haddenham' Collection of English Coins | Charles I (1625-1649), Civil War Issues, Royalist Oxford, 'Declaration' Halfcrown, 1646, 'Last Period', (m.m.) CAROLVS • D : G : MAG : BRIT : FRAN : ET • HIB : REX • neater squat horseman King trotting left, sword upright, plume behind sash with bands, pebbly ground below, rev. :•: EXVRGAT •:• DEVS • DISSIPENTVR • INIMICI, Wellington Declaration reading: RELIG • PROLEG | ANG • LIBER : PAR in two lines, •1•6•4•6• | • OX below, three even Oxford plumes divided by four pellets above, 12.83g [198.2grns], 7h, m.m. plume [on obv. only] (Bull 625/E [Oxford Mint, 2023], [T-X / I-A] [Ox. 10-3-p-D14c-9-D] this coin; Morrieson B-3; Brooker 922 same dies; Dawson 64; North 2434; Spink 2961), large striking split before horse, otherwise richly cabinet toned on and irregular and rather truncated flan, about very fine for issue, very rare, an example so good its listed twice in Bull's latest corpus!.
Provenance,
T Mathews, by private treaty, 1985,
Lt.-Col. A E Bray O.B.E, M.C., Glendining, 1 May 1985, lot 131 - "striking split, very fine",
Spink 24, 13 October 1982, lot 361 - "flan split, otherwise very fine and toned, but portrait flat" - £200
Estimate: £500 - £800