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Charles I (1625-1649), Oxford mint, Threepence, 1644, mm. lis on obv. only, Rawlins’ die, signed r below bust, rev. Declaration, three lis above, date below, inverted as for vs, 1.49g/1h (Morr. B-4; SCBI Brooker 962; N 2472; S 2994). Struck from deteriorating dies, about very fine, toned £150-200

Provenance: Cumberland Clark Collection, Sotheby Auction, 22-3 January 1914, lot 254 (part); Lyall Collection, Part III, DNW Auction 137, 21-3 September 2016 [from Baldwin 1969]