Great Britain (1644-45) 1/2 crown KM-303.1

Stack's Bowers 2023 NYINC sale, lot 23160

This specimen was lot 23160 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2023), where it sold for $1,560. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. 1/2 Crown, ND (1644-45). Exeter Mint; mm: rose. Charles I. NGC MS-61. Obverse: Charles, holding sword and reins, riding caparisoned horse trotting left; Reverse: Garnished oval coat-of-arms. Always a crude type, this series is almost never encountered in grades of Mint State as is the case here. Some striking weakness is observed, but nevertheless uncirculated and pleasingly toned." The Exeter mint was a temporary mint opened by the royalists during the Civil War. Half crowns were struck in numerous varieties, some dated, some with round shields, some with oval shields and many variations in scrollwork. None of these are photographed in the SCWC, so our attribution is tentative.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 14..05 g, 0.925 fine silver, this specimen 13.27 g.

Catalog reference: KM-303.1, S-3065; N-2550.

Source:

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.
Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The January 2023 NYINC Auction: Ancient Coins, World Coins & Paper Money, featuring the Taraszka Collection and the Mark and Dottie Salton Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2022.

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Great Britain (1644-45) 1/2 crown KM-303.1

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