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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 26353751, member: 12789&quot;]William III coins are more common from the latter part of the 17th century because all hammered coinage was called in for re-coinage beginning in 1695 to standardise coinage.&nbsp; In fact branch mints were set up in several locales in England to facilitate the re-coinage.&nbsp; As a result of many coins being minted then they circulated deep into the 18th and very early 19th centuries.</p><p><br /></p><p>So it could have been carved up even early in the 19th century - obviously it was heavily circulated when it was done.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1682140[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Above is a 1696 half-crown that I purchased out of a junk silver lot that came into a coin shop in a lot of mostly early 20th century silver coinage - I paid the whopping sum of £4 - then at melt for it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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