Produced by Steven Gibbs, Woodie4 and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net THE COINAGES OF THE CHANNEL ISLANDS. BY LIEUTENANT-COLONEL B. LOWSLEY, ROYAL ENGINEERS (RETD.). Author of Contributions on "The Coins and Tokens of Ceylon" (_Numismatic Chronicle, Vol. XV._); "The XVIIth Century Tokens of Berkshire" (_Williamson's Edition of Boyne's XVIIth Century Tokens_); "Berkshire Dialect and Folk Lore, with Glossary" (_the Publication of the English Dialect Society_), &c., &c., &c. London: VICTORIA PRINTING WORKS, 118 STANSTEAD ROAD, FOREST HILL, AND 15 KIRKDALE, SYDENHAM. 1897. INDEX. PAGE GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON COINAGES FOR THE CHANNEL ISLANDS 1 THE EARLIEST COINS OF THE CHANNEL ISLANDS 4 ROMAN COINS IN THE CHANNEL ISLANDS 7 ON EARLY IMPORTED COINS AND THEIR VALUES 9 THE COATS OF ARMS OF THE CHANNEL ISLANDS 26 THE JERSEY SILVER TOKENS OF 1813 28 COPPER AND BRONZE COINAGES OF JERSEY FROM 1841 30 ON GUERNSEY COINS FROM THE MIDDLE AGES 33 COPPER AND BRONZE COINAGES OF GUERNSEY FROM 1830 37 SILVER COUNTERMARKED GUERNSEY CROWN 38 CHANNEL ISLANDS COPPER TOKENS 39 SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES 40 The Coinages of the Channel Islands. BY LIEUTENANT-COLONEL B. LOWSLEY, (Retired) Royal Engineers. Author of Contributions on "The Coins and Tokens of Ceylon" (_Numismatic Chronicle_, _Vol. XV._); "The XVIIth Century Tokens of Berkshire" (Williamson's Edition of Boyne's XVIIth Century Tokens); "Berkshire Dialect and Folk Lore, with Glossary" (the Publications of the English Dialect Society), &c., &c., &c. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON COINAGES FOR THE CHANNEL ISLANDS. Before treating of the Channel Islands coinages in detail, it may be of interest briefly to notice in order the various changes and the influences which led to these. The earliest inhabitants of the islands of whom anything is known were contemporaneous with the ancient Britons of Druidical times. Jersey and Guernsey are still rich in Druidical remains. The Table-stone of the Cromlech at Gorey is 160 feet superficial, and the weight, as I have made it, after careful calculation, is about 23-3/4 tons. It rests on six upright stones, weighing, on an average, one ton each. In the very complete work recently edited by E. Toulmin Nicolle[A] is the following interesting note:--