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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;tulipone, post: 2372101, member: 71656&quot;]I&#039;m not really sure what you are after or if you are writing the information to go alongside the coin?</p><p><br /></p><p>Either way, my town of Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire is the birthplace of Oliver Cromwell who was initially one of the main protagonists of Charles I (and who signed his execution warrant).&nbsp; About the time of this coin, Charles I had taken Huntingdon and had quartered in the George on the High Street.&nbsp; Cromwell, Thomas Fairfax and others where well on the way with the New Model Army and the regicide of Charles.</p><p><br /></p><p>Actually the Civil War caused many British royalists and other disaffected people to move to the colonies.&nbsp; Case in point, Huntington, New York was founded early 1650s by folk from Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.&nbsp; I am sure that the east coast is filled with ancestors of the period.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you like the coins of the period, have a look at British Comonwealth of the period.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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