Spectacular 1643 Rawlins Oxford Pound

312, Lot: 35. Estimate $40000. Sold for $75000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

STUART. Charles I. 1625-1649. AR Pound (53mm, 120.30 g, 7h). Attributed to Thomas Rawlins. Declaration type. Oxford mint; im: plume (with bands). Dated 1643. (plume) : CAROLVS : D : G : MAG : BRIT : FRA : ET : HIBER : REX :, Charles, holding reins with left hand and sword in right, on horseback left, trampling arms below; Oxford plume to right / EXVRGAT : DEVS : DISSIPENTVR : INIMICI (group of ten pellets), RELIG : PROT : LEG/ANGL : LIBER : PAR in two lines between parallel lines; three Oxford plumes and XX (mark of value) above, 1643 below. Morrieson, Oxford, dies A/- (unlisted rev. die); Brooker 863 var. (pellets flanking mark of value, Shrewsbury plumes on reverse; same obv. die); North 2397; SCBC 2938. EF, attractive old cabinet toning. Very rare.

From the Clearwater Collection. Ex Astarte XXII (12 June 2010), lot 235.

We have been unable to trace the provenance of this superb Pound before 2010 when it appeared in the Astarte sale in Lugano. It was offered with a small group of choice English rarities all of which had very old cabinet tones. The reverse die for this coin is found on only one other specimen – Spink 63, lot 343 (ex Helen Farquar, Frederick Hilton-Price, and J. Spink, Sr. collections).