From the Morris and Lingford Collections

CNG 85, Lot: 1546. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

STUART. Charles I. 1625-1649. AR Halfcrown (35mm, 14.48 g, 12h). Chester mint; im: three vertical pellets/triangle of pellets. Struck 1644. Larger horseman; sash flys out behind; horse with thick tail / Crowned oval royal coat-of-arms within ornate frame and lion skin. Bull 579a/75-36 (this coin cited on p. 328); Brooker 1114 (same obv. die) SCBI 5 (Chester) 448 (same dies); North 2628; SCBC 3131. VF, toned, obverse struck with clashed die, typical for this emergency issue. Obverse struck with clashed die, typical for this emergency issue. Rare.

Ex Alan Morris Collection (purchased from Mike Vosper, May 2003); H.M. Lingford Collection (purchased from Baldwin, 1943).