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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheRed, post: 7778529, member: 87080&quot;]Congrats on the awesome find [USER=103128]@clanger[/USER]&nbsp; it is a very nice coin.&nbsp; These type of coins, imitations of English pennies with the bare headed bust, are known as pollards.&nbsp; Another type of sterling imitation with a chaplet of roses is known as a crockard.&nbsp; Both crockards and pollards were minted in the Low Countries and more broadly North-west Europe.&nbsp; Merchants from those countries/principalities would journey to England in order to buy English wool.&nbsp; At the time they had to utilize English pennies, and would exchange silver bullion or their own coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Eventually the authorities in the Low Countries started minting their own imitations of Edwardian pennies.&nbsp; Initially the imitations were at a standard roughly equivalent to English coins, but over time the fineness of the crockards and pollards fell.&nbsp; The first imitations exchanged at a 1 to 1 rate with the English penny, but as the imitations were debased they were legally valued as a halfpenny, before being banned from England.&nbsp; But to an illiterate medieval person it didn&#039;t matter as the coin looked close enough.&nbsp; The English crown had to continually fight the influx of these coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>The best site on the internet to cover Sterling Imitations is here:&nbsp; <a href="https://sterlingimitations.com/index.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://sterlingimitations.com/index.html" rel="nofollow">Sterling imitations and contemporary forgeries</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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