Great Britain (1641-43) shilling
This specimen was lot 40460 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Costa Mesa, CA, August 2021), where it sold for $1,260. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Shilling, ND (1641-43). London Mint; mm: uncertain (possibly triangle-in-circle). Charles I. NGC MS-63. Group F, type 4.4. Lustrous and boldly struck in spots, with a few areas of weakness. The irregular edge has bitten into the legends, but the weight clearly indicates a full flan with no clipping. VERY RARE this wholesome and without circulation." Charles' conflicts with Parliament and his subsequent inability to raise funds cramped the production of coin. The SCWC lists over fifty different types of shillings for Charles I. Milled coinage finally superseded the hammered coinage in 1664. However, the old hammered coin was not called in and melted until 1696-97.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 6.02 g, 0.925 fine silver, this specimen 6.10 g.
Catalog reference: S-2799; KM-109; N-2231.
- Lobel, Richard, Mark Davidson, Allan Hailstone and Eleni Calligas, Coincraft's Standard Catalogue of English and UK Coins, 1066 to Date, London: Coincraft, 1995.
- Skingley, Philip, ed., Standard Catalogue of British Coins: Coins of England & the United Kingdom, 46th edition, London: Spink & Son, 2011.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The August 2021 ANA sale: World and Ancient Coins, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2021.
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