CNG 90, Lot: 2605. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

STUART. Charles I. 1625-1649. AV Halfcrown (17mm, 1.29 g, 7h). Third (Briot’s) coinage. Class I. Edinburgh mint. Struck 1637-1642. CAR · D : G · MAG · BRIT · FRAN · ET · HIB · R (lozenge and double lozenge stops throughout), crowned and mantled bust left / · VNITA · TVEMVR ·, square-topped coat-of-arms; crown above; crowned C R across field. Burns 8 (fig. 1037); SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian), 1406 (same dies); SCBC 5538. Near EF, toned. Exceptional for issue and rare.

From the Ian Gordon Collection (purchased from Classical Numismatic Group, 2003). Ex Dr. James Davidson Collection (Dix, Noonan, Webb 59, 7 October 2003), lot 923 (purchased from Baldwins, April 1940).