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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robp, post: 8144539, member: 96746&quot;]A Charles I angel pierced for use as a touchpiece. It used to be thought that the sovereign held the power to cure scrofula by laying his hand on sufferers, and these angels were used in the touching ceremony.</p><p><br /></p><p>The last angels were struck in the period prior to Charles leaving London before raising his flag at the start of the Civil War. A total of 25000 pieces were struck across all marks. This example has the initial mark bell on the obverse with the reverse bell over portcullis over harp. The angel was valued at 10 shillings (denoted by the X). This coin was previously in the Brooker, Lockett and Carlyon-Britton cabinets.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1420217[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>An earlier angel is this Henry VII coin with the mintmark anchor. Struck on a small flan of good weight, this is a very good example of rusty dies with not a smooth area of field to be seen. It is also unusual in that the spear cross ends are a composite of the pommee and crosslet ends with a ball impaled on the cross end. Prior to this reverse die, all spears had round cross-ends. After this it was all crosslet ended spears with a small cross on each end. 5 known.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1420219[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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