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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robp, post: 24553211, member: 96746&quot;]An &#039;HC&#039; halfcrown. I&#039;m not convinced by the Hartlebury Castle attribution, or at least not in 1646, when the &#039;siege&#039; lasted for one day! I&#039;m more inclined to 1644 as the date and a couple of options spring to mind.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1554224[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Charles I 3a3 halfcrown with mm. Sun, the obverse over (R). Interesting in that it misses out the intervening Eye mark, so an old die resurrected.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1554225[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>1646 &#039;B&#039; mint groat.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1554226[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Civil War &#039;Ormonde&#039; halfcrown, struck for payment to Irish troops on the Royalist side on the orders of the Earl of Ormonde, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1643.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1554227[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>1644 Bristol halfcrown (Morrieson B1). This must have been struck from the dregs at the bottom of the pot as the metal was not well mixed, this coin having a high copper content.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1554228[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>W/SA halfgroat. The reverse of this was not known to Allen in his 1938 BNJ article, though a couple others are now known. Still trying to work out where in the sequence this comes relative to the other two reverses used. It&#039;s a lot cruder than the other two, so should be either first or last, but the obverse die, common to all three die pairs, doesn&#039;t degrade appreciably to sort out the order.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1554229[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>A Tower mint type 4 halfcrown with mm. Star. Interesting in that the obverse mark is over Triangle over Anchor, but the type wasn&#039;t introduced until the Star mark. Presumably the die was used for the previous issue, but was not rubbed down sufficiently to erase the old detail when recycled for re-engraving.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1554230[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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