CNG 106, Lot: 1132. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

STUART. Charles I. 1625-1649. AR Half Pound (48mm, 60.19 g, 4h). Declaration type. Oxford mint; im: plume with bands. Dated 1643. Charles, holding reins with left hand and sword in right, on horseback left, trampling arms below; plume to right / Declaration in two lines between parallel lines; three Oxford plumes and X (mark of value) above, 1643 below. Morrieson, Oxford A/1 (same dies as illustration); Brooker Appendix I 15 (same dies); North 2404; SCBC 2945A. VF, toned, edge knock.

From the RAJ Collection, purchased from Stephen Harvey, 1989.