Duo of Charles I

Not quite ancient, but the ancients forum is my home, and I know others here are fans of old English coins, so I thought I'd share this. I love big English coins, and I recently scored this awesome duo of Charles I. If you could sum up my collection - it's the portrait series of rulers of Rome, Byzantium and England.

Charles I hammered silver half-crown: And shilling:




I'm keen to see hammered English silver, so please share

 

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Very nice and much better than the ones I owned until a few years ago when I dispersed my English hammered silver collection..





I had moved to collecting Cnut by that stage. Now sadly all gone. Here is one of the Cnuts....

Cnut - Short Cross Penny

Obv:- CNVT RECX, Diademed bust left holding sceptre
Rev:- FERDEIN ON EOR, Short cross voided; in centre, a circle enclosing a pellet
Minted in York (EOR by moneyer Farthein (FERDEIN) A.D. 1029-1035/6
Reference:- North 790

 

Still, very nice big chunky coins of Charles. The immaculate ones cost thousands, so i'm content to have honest wear examples. I don't have Cnut yet, but he's on my wish-list.

 

Awesome OP-example, Smeag ... very cool (sadly, I don't have any of these types)

 

interesting coins...what are the time periods for these coins ?

 

17th century. Charles I reigned from 1625 to 1649.

 

Greg - that is a nice half-crown. I find it amusing that it was a capital offence to clip coins, but still they did. I'm never sure if that tiny chunk of silver that was clipped off was worth the risk of the gallows, understanding that you clip a lot of coins you get a lot of clippings.

How much silver would make the risk worthwhile? How many half crowns would the average worker own bearing in mind it would have been a significant lump of money and therefore how many could he clip?

Yours appears to be 1641-1643 minted in Tower and a fantastic bit of history.

 

Lovely crown! I'm also working on a portrait series of English monarchs, but focusing on the Angevins at the moment (and getting easily distracted by their continental domains...). I just returned from a trip to England and it has got me itching to buy some of the later stuff...

 

VERY NICE !!! I'm a bit tempted to collect a few .....

 

Great coins Greg!

 

Nice coins, I like them alot. Nice portraits on both.

 

OK - I'll play!
Here are some Tudor ones from my collection:
Edward VI Shilling S2482 with "y" mintmark - 1551
Philip and Mary Sixpence S2505 dated 1554
Henry VIII Groat S2337E mintmark Pheon - 1526-1544


Henry VIII was, of course, the father of both Edward VI and Mary I. Edward died in his teens to be succeeded by his elder sister - the first crowned Queen of England. In between was the shortest reigned monarch of all - Lady Jane Grey a cousin of Edward's and Protestant (Mary was Catholic) and so put forward as a safer choice. The people wouldn't have it and Jane was deposed after just 9 days without being crowned and later beheaded.
Philip, who married Mary, was king of Spain and his appearance on the coinage was highly controversial - hence very few of these survive. When Mary died, Elizabeth took the throne and Philip lost his seat. He later tried to regain England for the Catholic world with the ill fated Spanish Armada in 1588.
I hope you enjoy!

 

I have no old English coins, but these 2 are very intriguing, nice obverses on both coins.

 

I would very much like to own your P&M 6d. I'm not sure I have seen one before.

 

I'm sure you would!
Sadly this one is not for sale. They are extraordinarily difficult to come by, though a Metal detectorist friend picked up a Philip and Mary Shilling in even better condition a few years back. She won't part with it either!

 

fabulous coins, I lke them very much

I can only contribute with a Lizzy I° sixpence image



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VERY nice coins and tie-ins... makes a nice set!

My only English Medieval... (at this point)

Elizabeth I Shilling


Elizabeth I Sixpence

 

Henry V penny

 

Just read a biography of William Marshall called "The Greatest Knight" that was about the Anvegin period (not a coin book). Great book with lots of discussion of common life including some mention of coinage.