Great Britain 1644-BR shilling
This specimen was lot 40465 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Costa Mesa, CA, August 2021), where it sold for $960. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Shilling, 1644. Bristol Mint. Charles I. PCGS VF-30 Gold Shield. Offering an attractive cabinet tone and a rather bold obverse strike, this minor, emanating from late in the reign of Charles I, does exhibit some typical central strike weakness on the reverse. From the Sundial Valley Farms Collection." Charles' conflicts with Parliament erupted into open war in 1642. One of Parliament's first acts after Charles fled London was to seize the Tower Mint. In response, Charles opened branch mints to provide coin to pay his forces. Some of the mints were shortlived, as an army stopped for a few weeks to reequip but Oxford, Shrewsbury and Bristol operated for several years. Bristol produced half crowns, shillings (shown here), sixpence, groats and threepence. Her mintmark was a "BR" monogram.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 6.02 g, 0.925 fine silver.
Catalog reference: S-3015; Brooker-996.
- 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.
Link to:
- (1641-43) half crown
- (1644) "rose farthing", Oxford mint
- 1644 threepence, Exeter mint
- 1644 threepence, Oxford mint
- 1644 groat, Exeter mint
- 1644-OX 4 pence (groat), Oxford mint
- 1644 sixpence, Bristol mint
- (1644-45) shilling
- 1644-BR half crown, Bristol mint
- (1644-45) half crown, Exeter mint
- (1644-45) halfcrown, (R) mintmark, Tower mint
- (1644)-CHST half crown, Chester mint
- (1644-45) half crown, roses in legend, Worcester mint
- 1644 crown, Exeter mint
- 1644 "Rawlins’" crown, Oxford mint
- (1644-45) gold crown, (R) mintmark, Tower mint
- 1644 pound, Oxford mint
- (1644-45) unite, Tower mint
- 1644 unite, Oxford mint, "·RELIG·PRO·"
- 1644 triple unite
- Newark 1645 shilling
- (1645-46) shilling, eye mintmark
- 1645-BR half crown, Bristol mint
- Coins and currency dated 1644