Declaration Half-Pound from the Marshall Collection

312, Lot: 36. Estimate $7500. Sold for $5600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

STUART. Charles I. 1625-1649. AR Half-Pound (45mm, 59.91 g, 5h). Declaration type. Oxford mint; im: plume (with bands). Dated 1643. (plume) CAROLVS : D : G : MAGN : BRIT : FRAN : ET : HIB : REX ·, Charles, holding reins with left hand and sword in right, on horseback left, trampling arms below; plume to right / EXVRGAT : DEVS : DISSIPENTVR : INIMICI (group of four pellets), RELIG : PROT : LEG/ANG : LIBER : PAR’ in two lines between parallel lines; three plumes and • X • (mark of value) above, 1643 below. Morrieson, Oxford, dies A/1; Brooker Appendix I, 15 (same dies); North 2404; SCBC 2945A. Good VF, toned, small flaw by date.

From the Clearwater Collection. Ex Marshall Collection (Spink 167, 31 March 2004), lot 131; Spink Numismatic Circular L.11 (November 1942), no. 16831.