English Hammered Coins from Various Properties Charles I (1625-1649), Tower mint, Tower mint, Halfcrown, Gp III, type 3b, mm. bell (over portcullis on rev.) [1634-5], plume over shield, 14.92g/9h (Francis BNJ 1917, p. III. 4 = Bull 212/27, this coin illustrated; SCBI Brooker 333; N 2210; S 2774). Struck on a compact but rather full weight flan, otherwise very fine, some crazing on the obverse £300-£400 Provenance: Published by G.R. Francis in ‘Silver Coins of the Tower Mint of Charles I’, BNJ XIII 1917; C. Adams Collection, Spink Auction 177, 1 December 2005, lot 111 (bt M. Rasmussen 2003); M. Rasussen FPL 16, Winter 2008 (51)