Great Britain (1630-31) 1/2 crown
This specimen was lot 31204 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Chicago, August 2022), where it sold for $504. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. 1/2 Crown, ND (1630-31). London Mint; mm: plume. Charles I. PCGS VF-30. Group 2, type 2a. Obverse: Charles, holding sword and reins, riding caparisoned horse trotting left; Reverse: Garnished oval coat-of-arms; above, lis between C-R. Moderately handled and struck on a somewhat irregular flan, but still pleasantly toned and entirely original." The SCWC lists over forty different undated half crowns for Charles I, a side effect of the Civil War.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 15.05 g, 0.925 fine silver.
Catalog reference: KM 115.1, S-2769; N-2205; Brooker-300-2 var. (additional pellets on rev.); Bull-104a/- (unlisted rev. die).
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- Lobel, Richard, Mark Davidson, Allan Hailstone and Eleni Calligas, Coincraft's Standard Catalogue of English and UK Coins, 1066 to Date, London: Coincraft, 1995.
- Skingley, Philip, ed., Standard Catalogue of British Coins: Coins of England & the United Kingdom, 46th edition, London: Spink & Son, 2011.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The 2022 ANA Auction - Ancients & World Coins - Featuring The Salton Collection Part III, the Augustana Collection and the Robert C. Knepper Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2022.
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