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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robp, post: 24552663, member: 96746&quot;]Charles I Hks. type 5 halfcrown, the final Tower Mint design for the reign. mm. Sun, so struck 1645-6.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1554088[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Charles I G1/2 Briot bust shilling with mm. (R) and inverted mark of value, struck 1644-5</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1554089[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Charles I 1643 Oxford shilling. Morrieson D-2.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1554090[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Charles I shilling of York, struck sometime between January 1642/3 and January 1643/4, but likely earlier. This is the finer type of the two York shillings, with the engraver likely to be Briot or his understudy, Rawlings. Besly dies 2Ee.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1554093[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This is one of the five designs of the other, cruder York shillings. Besly dies 1A</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1554094[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>A badly double struck 1646 &#039;B&#039; mint shilling with the obverse mm. Plume over BR monogram. Boon suggested that following the fall of Bristol on 27th Sept 1645, dies were smuggled out to Oxford, on to Ashby (&#039;A&#039;) and subsequently on to Bridgnorth (&#039;B&#039;). For various reasons the chronology doesn&#039;t add up with the physical evidence of the coins also a little contradictory, so the attribution requires further work IMO. The mints are clearly related in that A over BR, B over A, Plume over A and Plume over BR are all known. My money is on somewhere in Wales for this issue and not Bridgnorth, which from 12th March onwards held a garrison of 120 men. The nearly 30 dies attributed to this location would be a bad case of overkill with one die per four or five soldiers and all dies engraved and coins struck inside one month.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1554100[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Something more mundane - a final issue penny</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1554104[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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