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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robp, post: 4619313, member: 96746&quot;]A bad day at the mint. A 1697y shilling struck at York during the recoinage designed to eliminate hammered coins from circulation. This has the Irish and French shields transposed on the reverse, but it also tells us that the person who set the dies in the press prior to striking aligned them by positioning the French arms with the top of the head, as this is the only shield in the correct relative position for coin alignment. Everything else is wrong! Dug up nearly 20 years ago, this remains the second known as far as I am aware, the other being the Parsons, Jackson-Kent and Manville specimen.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1143804[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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