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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jamesicus, post: 4549832, member: 14873&quot;]Charles I bronze Crown weight (c. 1644)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1126335[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Diameter: 17mm, Weight: 4.50gm, Whithers 292</p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse depiction: Crowned bust of Charles I facing left</p><p><br /></p><p>Inscription: CAROLVS REX - small B below bust</p><p><br /></p><p>(King Charles - initial of Nicholas Briot, die cutter)</p><p><br /></p><p>Reverse depiction: Centered Crown over Inscriptional letters</p><p><br /></p><p>Inscription: X over S centered below crown with lozenges either side</p><p><br /></p><p>(Ten shillings)</p><p><br /></p><p>Notes:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. These were used by Merchants to verify weights of coins.</p><p>2. This one was most likely struck by the traveling mint of Charles I at New Inn Hall, Oxford, by the official Royal die maker, Nicholas Briot, in 1644.</p><p>3. Numerous coin issues of Charles I were struck at traveling mints as he moved his headquarters around the country.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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