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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5127716, member: 110504&quot;][USER=87080]@TheRed[/USER] needs to get over here!&nbsp; He&#039;s got amazing stuff.</p><p>...A few years ago, by way of ebay, I&nbsp; wound up in correspondence with a British collector who was an Absolute Maven on the the truly labyrinthine variations (/&#039;classes&#039;) of English hammered.&nbsp; He very magnanimously sold me his culls (emphasis on &#039;his&#039;) at cost, until I was quite frankly done with the entire series for a while.</p><p>But the classes themselves are worth squinting over, since they really do date the coins within as little as a couple of years.&nbsp; Not only were minting practices that centralized (from the Edwards on, at least, most dies were supplied from London), England is rich enough in extant records that the successive coinages are all documented.</p><p>...Let&#039;s see what I can find a .jpg of, without the cyber equivalent of turning over the house.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1203138[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1203139[/ATTACH]</p><p>This is Edward I, from the royal mint at York (there was an ecclesiastical one, too --the only concessions the Angevins consistently made, where minting was concerned, were to leading bishoprics).&nbsp; All I have on it is that it&#039;s Class 3; there should be a lower case letter (or two) after that, for the subvariant within the class.&nbsp; Anyway, Class 3 is dated 1280-1 (from North).</p><p>Obv. +EDW R&#039; ANGL DNS HyB (Edwardus Rex Anglie, Dominus Hibernie; King of England, Lord of Ireland.)</p><p>Rev. (from 9 o&#039;clock; should&#039;ve tilted the .jpg) CIVITAS EBORACI (City of York.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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