I’ve been looking recently for a Elizabeth I shilling. Some of the nice ones here may convince me to get one. Totally different question but we’re all these coins made at the Tower of London, if not what other mints were there? Can you always tell the mint?
Hi Greg, I have only just joined Cointalk, but being a detectorist and collector based in the UK your thread jumped to my attention. I have a few examples of the period you have mentioned and thought I would post up my best one... It is a Henry VIII third coinage groat 1544-7. I dug this up on a piece of pasture in Hampshire...and have no idea how it has survived in such good condition
M Magnificent. It’s very hard to find a HVIII groat in such great condition. I understand this is posthumous coinage - minted under Edward VI before HVIII’s death was made public.
I have started my Tudor collection with this Elizabeth I sixpence. It's very hard to find the right coin for the price. You can get a good portrait, but with clipping. Or for the same price, you can get a fair portrait with a full flan. For me, the portrait is the most important part. I don't even care if the coin is holed.
Hi Greg.....That is a NICE coin!....Portraits are commonly worn almost flat....Really cool pick up with good detail on both sides!...Impressive start to your collection and look forward to seeing the rest.....Paul
Thanks for the information Greg, I hadn't realised that the third coinage was the posthumous coinage. Nice Elizabeth sixpence with some good detail remaining on the portrait. It looks like an Eglantine mint mark to me which agrees with the date of 1575 as that mark was used 1573-8. I attach a couple of mine for interest, but bear in mind these are dug coins so have a few more scratches (or history as I like to call it ) A sixpence, fairly full flan and reasonable portrait. Woolpack mint mark so sixth issue 1594 And a three pence, again with a full flan and a reasonable portrait. Eglantine mint mark, the same as yours so third/fourth coinage, 1575