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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 COINAGE

   Tower Mint

   Briot's Coinage

PROVINCIAL and CIVIL WAR issues

   York, 1643-4

   Aberystwyth, 1638/9 - 42

   Aberystwyth Furnace, 1648/9

   Uncertain Mints

   Shrewsbury, 1642

   Oxford, 1642-46

   Bristol, 1643-45

   Ashby de la Zouch, 1645

   Bridgenorth-on-Severn, 1646

   Exeter, 1643-46

   Truro, 1642-43

   Worcester, 1644-45

   Worcester or Shrewsbury (Salopia), 1643-44

   Salopia (Shrewsbury), 1644

   Hartlebury Castle (Worcs), 1646

   Chester, 1644

   Welsh Marches?, 1644

   Carlisle, 1644-45

   Newark, 1645-46

   Pontefract, 1648/9

   Scarborough, 1644/45

COPPER FARTHINGS

SCOTTISH COINAGE

IRISH COINAGE

 

  

   

BNJ References: 

Tower Mint

G. 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.

F. McIntosh and E. Morris,  ‘Counterfeit Charles I coins in rural County Durham’, 83 (2013), 253-8

David Holt, John Hulett and Bob Lyall, 

‘The Tower Mint shillings of Charles I (1625–49)’, 84 (2014), 165-176

Provincial Mints

Charles I - Provincial Mints 

F. 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.

Siege Pieces

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)

North, J. J. & Preston-Morley, P. The John G. Brooker Collection. Coins of Charles I (1625-1649). SCBI 33. London, 1984. Quarto, pp. lxix, (8), 130 pages of plates each with descriptive text. Casebound. jacket. This volume describes and illustrates almost the entire Brooker collection of over 1,350 coins all of the reign of Charles I and provides a permanent record of many coins now widely dispersed. The collection has been catalogued by the authors in accordance both with previous Sylloge style and the product of new research in connexion with the provincial Royalist issues.This is one of the best specialist books available on the coins of Charles I.      0003702 the john brooker collection of the coins of charles i 340  

 

Besly, 2019, Coins and Medals of the English Civil War (Info)

The second edition of this book presents a new and expanded exploration of the unusually varied coinage and currency of the ‘Great Rebellion’ of 1642-1660, a pivotal period in British history. It builds on further research available since its original publication in 1990, notably a fresh appraisal of the West Country mints of Sir Richard Vyvyan and new insights into the numerous hoards of the time. Along the way, we meet more of the people who willingly or unwillingly did business with the wartime mints. Following a description of the currency in circulation in 1642 and a survey of the organisation of royalist minting during the war, the royalist mint-franchises are considered in turn. Foreign coinage, siege issues and the emergency coinages of Ireland are all described; and the story of the Tower Mint under Parliament is followed through the Interregnum of 1649-60 to the Restoration of Charles II. Minting methods at a time of transition from manual to mechanised production form an important subsidiary theme. Edward Besly was Numismatist at the National Museum of Wales (Amgueddfa Cymru) from 1986-2018, having previously worked at the British Museum. He is best known for his studies of Romano-British coin hoards and of the coinages of the time of Charles I (1625-49). In 2003 he was awarded the John Sanford Saltus Medal of the British Numismatic Society.   Coins and Medals

 

The English Civil Wars, Video Series (2019)

Episode 1 - A People Divided

Episode 2 - A Nation At War

Episode 3 - To Kill A King

Episode 4 - The Shadow Of The Scaffold

    
   A Charles I Touchpiece

Ch1 S2683A 21004 31

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..

Provenance
Spink 258, 28 January 2019, lot 1687
BSJ 9, 21 September 2017, lot 1193
'The New York Sale XL', 11 January 2017, lot 1370
Baldwin 101, 28 September 2016, lot 3212

  

 

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