Description
Charles I (1625-1649), AR ‘Declaration’ Pound, 1642, Civil War Issues, Oxford mint, mm. plume/seven pellets. CAROLVS:DG:MAG:BRIT.FRAN:ET:HIB:REX, King on horseback left, sword in right hand, plume behind, chequered exergue, Rev. EXVRGAT:DEVS:DISSIPENTVR:INIMICI / RELIG PROT LEG ANG LIBER·PAR, XX and three plumes above, date below, 120.24g/5h. (Brooker 862; Lockett 2435 [same dies]; Lingford 159 [same dies]; N. 2400; S. 2941). Good Very Fine or better, an excessively rare example of this popular Civil War type. Hints of original brilliance, the reverse brighter.
