English Coins and Tokens, with a Chapter on Greek and Roman CoinsJewitt, Llewellynn Frederick William
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English Coins and Tokens, with a Chapter on Greek and Roman Coins
Jewitt, Llewellynn Frederick William
Coins, British; Numismatics -- Great Britain; Tokens -- Great Britain
_Gold._ Thirty-shilling, Unit, and other pieces, king enthroned, in
full regalia, his feet upon a portcullis, the field diapered; or
half-length or shorter portrait of king in armour, crowned, sceptre in
right and orb in left hand: reverse, shield of arms. Rose-rial, king
enthroned as before; reverse, a large double rose with shield of arms.
Spur-rial, king in armour, standing in a ship with sword and shield;
or, the Scottish lion, sejant, crowned, holding a sceptre in his right
paw and supporting with his left a shield of the royal arms; reverse,
within a tressure a Spur-rowel, or star of 16 points centred with a
rose, four points terminated with lions, and four with fleurs-de-lis.
Angel, etc., usual type. Thistle crown, a double rose on its stem,
crowned, between the initials I. R.; reverse, a thistle crowned in like
manner. Some of the legends or reverses are EXVRGAT DEVS DISSIPENTVR
INIMICI; TVEATVR VNITA DEVS; FACIAM EOS IN GENTEM VNAM; HENRICVS ROSAS,
REGNA IACOBVS; A DNO. FACTVM EST ISTVD ET EST MIRAB. IN OCVLIS NRIS; A
DNO. FACTVM EST ISTVD, etc.
_Copper._ Farthing, crown and two sceptres in saltire, IACO. D. G.
BRIT. Reverse, Irish harp, crowned, FRA. ET. HIB. REX. For Scotland a
brass Twopence, called “Hardhead” was struck: obverse three thistles on
one stem, IACOBVS D. G. MAG BRIT; reverse, lion rampant, FRAN and HIB
REX.
CHARLES I. (1625 to 1649).
DENOMINATIONS.--_Silver._ Twenty-shilling-piece or Pound,
Ten-shilling-piece or Half-pound, Crown, Half-crown, Shilling,
Sixpence, Groat, Threepence, Half-groat, Penny, and Halfpenny.
_Gold._ Tower Mint. Unit, Broad, or Twenty-shilling-piece; Double-crown
or Half-broad or Ten-shilling-piece; crown, Britain-crown,
or Five-shilling-piece, Angel. Oxford Mint, Treble-Unit, or
Three-Pound-piece; Unit or Twenty-shilling-piece; Half-unit,
Double-crown, or Ten-shilling-piece. Briot’s Mint. Unit, Double-crown,
or Half Unit, Angel.
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