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Description: | Silver sixpence of Elizabeth I (1558-1603), second issue (1561-1582).
Dated 1582 over shield on reverse.
Clipped possibly later ?after 1662 when the older ?hammered? coinage continued to form the bulk of the circulating currency until the 1690s, by which time it was mostly in a poor state. The Great Recoinage of 1696-7 converted this into the modern ?milled? money, but a decision to exchange all old coins for new at face value, provided that they had not been clipped within the ?inner circle? of their designs, unleashed a final epidemic of clipping.?
(Besly, E. Loose Change, 1997, p.22) | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1582 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Anna Tyacke | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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