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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5194956, member: 110504&quot;][ATTACH=full]1214403[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1214404[/ATTACH]</p><p>Edward I, penny of Bristol, Class 3c, c. 1280-1.</p><p>My one and only problem with English hammered is that, unless you want to compete with the British Museum and the Fitzwilliam, there effectively isn&#039;t a feudal series complementing the royal one, as there are in France, the Low Countries, Germany, and even (on a smaller scale) Spain. By way of compensating for this, I&#039;m kind of hard-wired to associate the mints of the royal coins with neighboring baronial castles.&nbsp; This is especially easy to do from mints in or near the Welsh Marches and the Scottish border, where the the local baronage was allowed greater autonomy by the Crown, as an ongoing concession to the less than settled conditions. </p><p>This example might have been in circulation during the career of Maurice &#039;the Magnanimous,&#039; second Lord Berkeley (1271-1326).&nbsp; Here are two views of his tomb at Bristol Cathedral.</p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/MauriceBaronBerkeleyD.1326BristolCathedral.jpg/220px-MauriceBaronBerkeleyD.1326BristolCathedral.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Effigy2MauriceBaronBerkeleyD1326BristolCathedral.jpg/1280px-Effigy2MauriceBaronBerkeleyD1326BristolCathedral.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>And here&#039;s one view of Berkeley Castle, not far north of Bristol, with the mid-12th-c. shell keep (where Edward II was imprisoned) surrounded by outer walls and residential buildings, variously altered and rebuilt over the 13th and 14th centuries.</p><p><img src="https://assets.simpleview-europe.com/cotswolds/imageresizer/?image=%2Fdmsimgs%2FNT_161013_0042b_1425255724.jpg&amp;action=ProductDetail" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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