CNG 106, Lot: 1130. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

STUART. Charles I. 1625-1649. AR Half Pound (48mm, 59.66 g, 1h). Declaration type. Shrewsbury mint. Dated 1642. Charles, holding reins with left hand and sword in right, on horseback left, trampling arms below / Declaration in two lines between parallel lines; three Oxford plumes and X (mark of value) above, 1642 below. Morrieson, Shrewsbury, dies F/3 (same dies as illustration); Brooker 804 (same dies); North 2368; SCBC 2924. Near VF, toned, some weakness, typical die break on obverse.

From the RAJ Collection, purchased privately from Stephen Harvey, 1999.