Exeter Halfcrown Ex Dr. Carter
STUART. Charles I. 1625-1649. AR Halfcrown (37mm, 13.89 g, 6h). Exeter mint; im: rose. Dated 1644. (rose) CAROLVS · D · G · M · BR · FR · ET · HI · REX, Charles, holding reins with left hand and sword in right, on horseback left / CHRISTO · AVSPICE · REGNO 16 (rose) 44, garnished coat-of-arms. Besly M30 (this coin cited, rev. illustrated); Bull 664/30 (this coin cited); Brooker 1047 (same dies); North 2564; SCBC 3074. Good VF, toned. Struck on a broad flan. Extremely rare and perhaps the finest in private hands.
Ex A.E. Bray Collection (Glendining’s, 1 May 1985), lot 133; Dr. E.C. Carter Collection, purchased from Baldwin’s, 1951.
