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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PaddyB, post: 26044216, member: 40017&quot;]Forgive me a little indulgence. 1697 was one of the years of a great recoinage under Isaac Newton in GB. As a result a large proportion of older coinage was brought into the mint and melted down. (One dreads to think how many beautiful and rare coins were destroyed!) Because so many new coins had to be issued quickly, subsidiary mints were re-opened across the country.</p><p>I have sixpences for 1697 for most of these mints:</p><p>No mintmark for London, </p><p>B for Bristol,</p><p>C for Chester</p><p>E for Exeter</p><p>y for York:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1656046[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1656050[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1656049[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1656048[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1656047[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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