This week’s fresh listings:
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Medal & Token listings for that particular week.
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Additions to www.HistoryInCoins.com
for week commencing
WSC-9015: William 1st, The Lion, Scottish
Medieval Hammered Silver Penny.
Short cross & stars, rarer and earlier phase A, 1195 - 1205. Spink 5027.
RAVL:ON:ROCE - Roxburgh
mint. Good left facing bust of William,
sceptre before, crown of pellets.
Reverse better. William was the
younger brother of Malcolm IV. In
December 1189, William met Richard Coeur de Lion (Richard 1st of England) and
duly bought back Scottish independence from the English for 1,600,000 silver
pennies. Richard used the money to fund
his Crusades in the Holy Land. £395
WJC-9016: 1646 Charles 1st Newark
Besieged Silver Shilling. The final die
in a three die run (1645-6). The besieged Royalists set up a mint and used
salvers, flagons, drinking cups, etc., fashioned into hand-cut lozenge-shaped
planchets, striking half-crowns, shillings, ninepences, and sixpences. Struck
by the royalist forces who surrendered Newark (just up the River Trent from
Nottingham) on May 6, 1646, the day after King Charles I had fled the fortress
in secret to surrender himself personally to the besieging Scots, thus this
coin would have been part of the final batch.
Interestingly, Newark was actually besieged three times - first siege:
27-28 February 1643, second siege: 29 February to 21 March 1644 and this third
siege, lasting from 26 November 1645 to 8 May 1646. Evidence on the reverse of underlying host
design, especially around the date.
Spink 3143. A nice, honest
example that's not been pierced and often plugged, as most seem to be
these days. £1,975