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The organisation of this Charles I section of English coins follows that of the Spink catalogue, i.e: GOLD COINAGE (TOWER)SILVER COINAGEPROVINCIAL and CIVIL WAR issues Uncertain Mints Worcester or Shrewsbury (Salopia), 1643-44 Hartlebury Castle (Worcs), 1646 COPPER FARTHINGSSCOTTISH COINAGEIRISH COINAGE
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BNJ References: Tower MintG. R. Francis, ‘Silver coins of the Tower Mint of Charles I’, 12 (1916), 181-94, 5 pls.; 13 (1917), 75-94, 6 pls.; 14 (1918), 57-85, 6 pls.; 15 (1919-20), 79-116, 6 pls. H. W. Morrieson, ‘Table of the silver coins of the Tower Mint of Charles I’, 18 (1925-26), 159-63 C. A. Whitton, ‘A milled gold-pattern £3 piece of Charles I’, 23 (1938-41), 363-64 H. Schneider, ‘The Tower gold of Charles I’, 28 (1955-57), 330-85, 2 pls.; 29 (1958-59), 101-27, 3 pls.; 382-403, 3 pls.; 30 (1960-61), 302-30, 3 pls F. R. Cooper, ‘Silver crowns of the Tower Mint of Charles I: a study of the dies and die combinations’, 37 (1968), 110-37, 8 pls. M. B. Sharp, ‘The Tower shillings of Charles I and their influence on the Aberystwyth issue’, 47 (1977), 102-13, 7 pls. H. Schneider, ‘The Tower gold of Charles I: problems of survival ratios; three new angel dies’, 49 (1979), 74-81 M. B. Sharp, ‘More on the Tower shillings of Charles I’, 50 (1980), 136, pl. B. R. Osborne, ‘The Tower coins of Charles I’, 54 (1984), 164-209 M. Sharp, ‘New Charles I shillings of Chester and the Tower’, 54 (1984), 293 M. Sharp, ‘Further notes on the Tower shillings of Charles I’, 59 (1989), 214 M. Sharp, ‘Three seventeenth-century notes: (1). More Tower shillings of Charles I discovered; (2). An interesting Parliamentarian issue of 1642/3’, 60 (1990), 138-39, pl. M. Sharp, ‘Notes on two coins of Charles I’, 62 (1992), 195-6, pl. M. Sharp, ‘Unites from shilling dies and unrecorded shillings of Charles I’, 65 (1995), 225, pl.
Charles I - Provincial MintsF. Stroud, ‘Brief musings on the Exurgat money’, 1 (1903-04), 163-67 H. W. Morrieson, ‘Addenda to the coinages of Thomas Bushell’, 20 (1929-30), 159-62 R. C. Lockett, ‘Notes on the mints of Truro and Exeter under Charles I’, 22 (1934-37), 227-46, 8 pls. D. Allen, ‘The “Weymouth” and “Salisbury” mints of Charles I’, 23 (1938-41), 97-118, 5 pls.; 25 (1945-48), 227 D. G. Liddell and P. A. Rayner, ‘Charles I Truro/Exeter half-crowns’, 30 (1960-61), 151-58, pl. F. R. Cooper, ‘The silver crowns of Truro and Exeter under Charles I’, 46 (1976), 51-54, 2 pls. E. Besly and M. Cowell, ‘The metrology of the English Civil War coinages of Charles I’, 61 (1991), 57- 75, pl. E. Besly, ‘The English Civil War mints at Truro and Exeter, 1642-1646’, 62 (1992), 102-53, 13 pls. H. W. Morrieson, ‘The coinage of Aberystwyth, 1637-42’, 10 (1913), 181-97, 3 pls. P. Nelson, ‘The gold coins issued from the mint at Oxford, 1642-1646, in the reign of Charles I’, 11 (1915), 183-206, 4 pls. H. W. Morrieson, ‘The coins of the Shrewsbury mint, 1642’, 12 (1916), 195-211, 4 pls. Revisions: 14 (1918), 87-88 H. W. Morrieson, ‘The coinage of Oxford, 1642-46’, 16 (1921-22), 129-188, 9 pls.; 20 (1929-30), 137-51, 4 pls. H. W. Morrieson, ‘The attribution of the “BR” monogram on Charles I’s coins’, 17 (1923-24), 227-33 H. W. Morrieson, ‘The coinage of Bristol, 1643-1645’, 18 (1925-26), 135-57, 3 pls. H. W. Morrieson, 'The coinage of Lundy, 1645-6’, 19 (1927-28), 131-43, 2 pls. H. W. Morrieson, ‘The coinage of Coombe Martin, 1647-1648’, 20 (1929-30), 153-58, pl. R. D. Beresford-Jones, ‘The Oxford mint and the triple unites of Charles I’, 27 (1952-54), 334-44, 2 pls. J. R. Vincent, ‘Unpublished information upon Charles I Weymouth mints’, 28 (1955-57), 169-70, pl. R. Carlyon-Britton, ‘A note on the York sixpences of Charles I and an unpublished shilling of the same mint and reign’, 28 (1955-57), 203-04, pl. R. D. Beresford-Jones, ‘The Oxford mint, 1642-6: unites and half-unites’, 28 (1955-57), 604-19, 2 pls. J. P. C. Kent, ‘A Chester unite of Charles I’, 31 (1962), 165-66 M. B. Sharp, ‘The Tower shillings of Charles I and their influence on the Aberystwyth issue’, 47 (1977), 102-13, 7 pls. H. R. Jessop, ‘A Chester mint mark corrected’, 52 (1982), 244 M. Sharp, ‘Some additional notes on the Civil War coinage of Chester’, 52 (1982), 245-46 E. Besly, ‘The York mint of Charles I’, 54 (1984), 210-41 M. Sharp, ‘New Charles I shillings of Chester and the Tower’, 54 (1984), 293 E. Besly, ‘Further notes on the York mint of Charles I’, 61 (1991), 129-32, pl. M. Sharp, ‘Unites from shilling dies and unrecorded shillings of Charles I’, 65 (1995), 225, pl. P. Nelson, ‘The obsidional money of the Great Rebellion 1642-1649’, 2 (1905), 291-357, pl. W. J. Andrew, ‘Contemporary evidence against the attribution of obsidional money to isolated fortresses in the time of Charles I’, 11 (1915), 207-14 Further Reading: The John Brooker Collection of the Coins of Charles I, by J.J. North, 1984. Hardbound, 330 pages with 130 photographic plates of coins. (Info)
Besly, 2019, Coins and Medals of the English Civil War (Info)
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A Charles I Touchpiece Charles I (1625-1649), Royal Touchpiece Angel of 10-Shillings, 1628-1629, Tower (under King), : (m.m.) : CAROLVS · D: G: MAG: BRI: FR: ET · HI: REX (m.m.), St Michael vanquishing Dragon, small X in right field, rev. AMOR · POPVLI · PRÆSIDIVM · REGIS (m.m.), three-masted ship with Royal Arms on main sail, 3.93g, 12h, m.m. anchor [and castle over head on obv.] / anchor [over castle on reverse] (Spink 2683A; N.2144; Schneider [1960] dies 0-4a/R-5, pl. XV, no. 8, cf. SCBI Schneider II, nos 107-108; Brooker -). Images and data reproduced by kind permission of Spink and Son Ltd, London. Item is from the January 2021 auction #21004, The Sir Rodney Sweetnam KCVO CBE Collection of English Gold Coins and Other Properties, lot # 31. Extremely rare, being unknown to Montagu or Brooker and unparalleled beyond the British Museum cabinet example.. |