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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dafydd, post: 26346560, member: 86815&quot;]Charles I. Ex Baldwin July 2025.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://media.invisioncic.com/k321387/monthly_2025_08/image.gif.8713b1f25c344d71818a60b676383269.gif" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://media.invisioncic.com/k321387/monthly_2025_08/image.gif.8713b1f25c344d71818a60b676383269.gif" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://media.invisioncic.com/k321387/monthly_2025_08/image.gif.8713b1f25c344d71818a60b676383269.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>Charles I (1625-1649), AR Halfcrown, Tower mint, Group III, type 3a1, mm. tun. Charles on horseback (third horseman), no groundline.</p><p>Rev. Oval-garnished shield, 14.75g/6h. (N. 2209; SCBI Brooker 337; S. 2773). Very Fine or better, full flan.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is an interesting fact about the mintmark which is a tun. The mintmark defines the years the coin was minted, in this instance only between 1636 and 1638. More significantly, A tun is a large cask or barrel, particularly one used for holding liquids like wine, ale, or beer. Historically, it was also a unit of liquid measure, typically holding 252 wine gallons.</p><p><br /></p><p>The word is also the origin of the word &quot;ton&quot; for weight, because the weight of a tun of wine was approximately one long ton (2,240 pounds). </p><p>Another interesting thing ( well to me anyway)&nbsp; is that in recent times we accept the word &quot;factoid&quot; as being an interesting true fact, albeit trivial. </p><p><br /></p><p>The word was coined by American writer Norman Mailer in 1973. He created it by combining &quot;fact&quot; with the suffix &quot;-oid,&quot; which means &quot;similar to but not the same.&quot;</p><p>According to Mailer&#039;s original definition, a <b>factoid</b> is:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;An invented or false piece of information that is believed to be true because it has appeared in print or has been repeated often.&quot;</p><p>I looked this up several years ago when the word began to be used on the radio over here and it was new to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Any more coin &quot;factoids&quot; ?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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