ID Help For 3 Silver Hammered Coins | Charles I Shilling Etc

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colgoldlyn77 New Member United Kingdom 2 Posts	Posted 03/19/2011 06:26 am Hi, Please could anybody help me positive ID these 3 coins my friend found on a News Dig in Ripon North Yorkshire UK on Sunday. We think we know what they are but not definitely sure. Images 3 and 4 could be a sixpence or a groat, I have been told groats do not have a date stamped on the coin? If you follow this link it does give more information on the images 5 and 6. http://time-lines.co.uk/louis-iv-of...27711-0.html I apologise for some of the pics are upside down, and the coin next to the images is a UK 5p, just to give you some idea of coin sizes. Kind Regards Colin Identified - moved to British Coins forum - Sap Edited by colgoldlyn77 03/19/2011 06:50 am Report this Post to the Staff

Sap Moderator Australia 16868 Posts	Posted 03/19/2011 07:03 am Top one is a shilling, as you can prove by the "XII" denomination mark - there were 12 pennies to a shilling. The king is Charles I. Though the king's portrait has been worn away to near-invisibility, the good news from an archaeological point of view is that it can be dated: the six-pointed-star mintmark was only used in the Tower mint in late 1640 and early 1641. The middle one is clearly dated 1574; it appears to be a somewhat clipped sixpence. Queen Elizabeth I's portrait is completely worn away - a fate not uncommon to coins of this period, with designs carved in very low relief. The last one is not actually English - it's a very nice Continental imitative penny or "esterlin", made with a design similar enough to the well-respected English pennies to hopefully cause confusion and therefore acceptance. The obverse legend reads "LVDOVICVS ROM REX" - Louis king of the Romans, a reference to Holy Roman Emperor Louis IV of Bavaria (emperor 1328-1347). The reverse reads "MONETA AQENSIS" - money of Aachen, the Imperial Free City that actually issued the coin. Here's an example on CoinArchives (this link will expire in August 2011). Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
colgoldlyn77 New Member United Kingdom 2 Posts	Posted 03/19/2011 07:20 am Hi, Thank you for the ID of the 3 hammered coins. Kind Regards Colin Report this Post to the Staff
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