Very Rare Cary’s (Worcester) Mint
From the Brooker Collection

CNG 90, Lot: 2595. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

STUART. Charles I. 1625-1649. AR Halfcrown (33mm, 14.16 g, 9h). Cary’s (likely Worcester) mint; im: bunch of grapes/lis. Struck 1644-1645. CAROLVS : D : G MAG : BRIT : FRAN : ET : HIB : REX, Charles on horseback left, holding reins and raised sword / · CHRISTO · AVSPICE · REGNO · (lis stops), crowned and mantled oval coat-of-arms; lis to left and right. Brooker 1154 (this coin); North 2596; SCBC 3105. VF for issue, toned. Very rare.

From the Ian Gordon Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 55 (13 September 2000), lot 1831; Classical Numismatic Group XX (25 March 1992), lot 1365; John G. Brooker Collection; W. E. Ashley Collection; H. L. Farquhar Collection (Glendining, 25 April 1955), lot 108.