Morrieson Plate Coin

312, Lot: 37. Estimate $7500. Sold for $10000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

STUART. Charles I. 1625-1649. AR Crown (43mm, 29.49 g, 1h). Declaration type. Oxford mint; im: plume. Dated 1643. (plume) CAROLVS : D : G : MAG : BRIT : FRAN : ET : HI : REX, Charles, holding reins with left hand and sword in right, on horseback left; plume to right / EXVRGAT : DEVS : DISSIPENTVR : INIMICI (group of seven pellets), RELIG : PROT : LEG/ANG : LIBER : PAR in two lines between parallel lines; three plumes and • V • (mark of value) above, 1643 below. Morrieson, Oxford, dies B/3 (this coin illustrated on pl. II, nos. 16 and 18); Brooker 874–5 (same dies); North 2406; SCBC 2947. Near EF, toned. Full round flan, very rare thus.

From the Clearwater Collection. Ex V.J.E Ryan Collection (Part II, Glendining’s, 22 January 1952), lot 1233; Col. H.W. Morrieson Collection (Sotheby & Co., 20 November 1933), lot 453; Allen Preston Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 2 November 1900), lot 19.