Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals

Charles I (1625-1649), Oxford mint, Halfcrown, 1644, mm. Oxford plume on obv. only, Briot horseman, Oxford plume behind, groundline below, rev. Declaration, large Oxford plume between two smaller above, date in small figures and ox below, both between billets, 14.60g/3h (Bull 612/4; Morr. C-4 and BNJ XVI, pl. v, 64, this coin; SCBI Brooker –; N 2425; S 2965). Nearly very fine, very rare £1,000-1,500

Provenance: H.W. Morrieson Collection, Sotheby Auction, 20-4 November 1933, lot 530 [from J.H. Daniels January 1907]; R.C. Lockett Collection, Part V, Glendining Auction, 17 October 1961, lot 4549; N. Asherson Collection, Spink Auction 6, 10-11 October 1979, lot 70; P. Hunt Collection; C. Adams Collection, Spink Auction 177, 1 December 2005, lot 202.

Bull lists only four specimens of this rare die-combination