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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robp, post: 13702901, member: 96746&quot;]Thanks.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can do a certain amount of chronology using the coins. The Royalist issues were only struck to pay troops when there was an excess of demand over supplies of regular circulating coinage. No point making work for yourself if not necessary. </p><p><br /></p><p>You get the movement of a few marks which would correlate with the movement of armies. e.g Prince Maurice was in command at Exeter and Plymouth in 1643 and 1644 until he replaced Prince Rupert at Worcester in command of the Marches forces effective 1st December 1644. In 1643 and 1644 the mark at Exeter was a rose. This appears at a later date on some coins, e.g. the groat above. In the summer of 1644, Charles left Oxford and went to Droitwich which is near Worcester. Early W halfcrowns had a tower mark, which is also on the Worcester city arms, but this is only seen on obverse B. In 1645, Exeter coins adopt a tower mark. I think this is the same moneyer seen previously at Worcester, who went south with the king, stayed and replaced Maurice&#039;s man who headed north to Worcester. </p><p><br /></p><p>You can certainly identify individual engravers&#039; movements. e.g. this 1644 C-4 halfcrown (ex-Chesser) from around New Year 1644 uses an easily identifiable E punch on the reverse die, which subsequently was used at W/SA on halfcrown obverse D. This was probably used in the final 3 months prior to the fall of Shrewsbury on 21-22 Feb. 1644/5. Note that roses have also appeared in the reverse legend.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1530285[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1530286[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I think it is possible to match a good number of issues with the troop movements, but that would be far too much to discuss here. </p><p><br /></p><p>Bear in mind that the last field battle took place a few days before the end of 1645 at Stow on the Wold, so any issues post that date (21st March 1645/6) i.e anything dated 1646 had to be for a static location rather than a body of troops suddenly arriving from a campaign.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve only included pieces with a provenance in this thread, as per the title. I do have unprovenanced pieces as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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