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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jamesicus, post: 5665634, member: 14873&quot;]Charles I bronze Crown weight (c. 1644)</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/4d3b40a4-3c1c-4c93-9d43-048baa8ce946-jpeg.1126335/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Diameter: 17mm, Weight: 4.50gm, Whithers 292</p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse depiction: Crowned bust of Charles I facing left</p><p><br /></p><p>Inscription: CAROLVS REX (King Charles) small B below bust (initial of</p><p>Nicholas Briot, Royal chief die cutter.</p><p><br /></p><p>Reverse depiction: Centered Crown over Inscriptional letters</p><p><br /></p><p>Inscription: X over S centered below crown with lozenges either side</p><p><br /></p><p>(Ten shillings)</p><p><br /></p><p>Notes:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. These were used by Merchants to verify weights of coins.</p><p>2. This one was most likely struck by the traveling mint of Charles I at New Inn Hall, Oxford, by the official Royal die cutter, Nicholas Briot, in 1644.</p><p>3. Numerous coin issues of Charles I were struck at traveling mints as he moved his headquarters around the country.</p><p>4. I included this mostly because of the great portrait of Charles I on the obverse and the detailed depiction of the crown on the reverse.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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