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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robp, post: 5717866, member: 96746&quot;]I think the crown above the X is the same punch as that on the reverse of the Briot 1st milled double-crown. The relative sizes and profiles of the two are correct. That would pretty much condemn 1644 as a date for the weight and put it firmly in the early 1630s, not necessarily 1631-2 as the punch could be used later, but I would doubt that it would have happened later than 1638 when Briot introduced his next bust.</p><p><br /></p><p>A real reservation I have about any idea of Royalist Civil War weights is that coins were only made from plate to pay the troops in the absence of existing coin. With a day rate for the cavalry of 2s6d and an infantryman 1s, there would be little reason to strike 10s or greater other than for possible payment to commanders or as presentation pieces. A pyx trial was never carried out on any provincial mint issues. Plate brought into a Royalist mint was weighed and a receipt issued. Any coins donated or taken would be turned around as pay.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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