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Description: | TREASURE CASE : 2013 T635.All 163 coins are of good silver, of over 90% fine metal. The majority are English coins of the rulers Elizabeth I, James I and Charles I, the majority consisting of three denominations - sixpence, shilling and halfcrown; there are also some Irish coins of James I and Scottish coins of James and Charles I. There is also a group of coins from the Spanish Netherlands, from the reign of Philip IV of Spain. The most recent coins were the Tower coins issued during the time of the initial mark (P), which dates to 1643-4, and the half-crown from York, which operated during this same period. A detailed list accompanies this report.All the coins present are of types known to have circulated and been hoarded during the English Civil War, a period for which there are, of course, very many coin hoards which can be used for comparison. In particular, the group has some of the characteristics of hoards from the Yorkshire region, with one issue of the royalist York mint as the only coin present from one of the mints opened for the king away from London during the war, and a cache of the Spanish Netherlands coins familiar from hoards such as Middleham, Wyke and Breckenborough (for Yorkshire Civil War hoards, see Craig Barclay and Edward Besly, A Little Barrel of Ducatoons: the Civil War coinage of Yorkshire (Yorkshire Museum, 1994).The coins are of good silver and would have been deposited together on one occasion, probably in or soon after 1644. It is my opinion, therefore, that the find constitutes Treasure, according to the terms of the Act.Dr Barrie J. CookCurator of Medieval and Early Modern CoinageDepartment of Coins and MedalsBritish Museum25 February 20142013 T635 Staveley, YorkshireCatalogueEdward VI (1547-53)Third Period (1550-3)1. Sixpence tun 2.87Mary and Philip (1554-8)2. Shilling details illegible 5.563. Sixpence details illegible 2.69Elizabeth I (1558-1603)4-8. Shilling cross crosslet (1560-1) 5.83, 5.66, 5.02, 4.98, 4.819. Shilling martlet (1560-1) 4.11*10-12. Shilling bell (1582/3-83) 5.4, 5.07, 4.13*13-14. Shilling A (1583-84/5) 5.68, 4.4715. Shilling tun (1591/2-94) 5.9816. Shilling woolpack (1594-95/6) 5.3717-18. Sixpence pheon (1561-5) 1562 2.85, 2.3219. Sixpence rose (1565-65/6) 1565 2.5320-1. Sixpence portcullis (15665/6-66/7) 1566 2.65, 2.5222-3. Sixpence coronet (1567-70) 1568 2.28, 2.0624-5. 1569 2.73, 2.3326. 15-- 2.7727. Sixpence castle (1570-2) 1571 2.5928-30. Sixpence ermine (1572-3) 1572 2.87, 2.81, 2.6131-2 ermine or acorn 1573 2.83, 2.5933. Sixpence acorn (1573-4) 1574 2.7634. Sixpence eglantine (1574-8) 1574 2.7435-8. 1575 2.74, 2.42, 2.31, 2.339. Sixpence short cross (1578-80) 1578 2.3340. Sixpence long cross (1580-1) 1580 2.6341-3. Sixpence sword (1582-82/3) 1582 2.69, 2.47, 2.2*44. Sixpence bell (1582/3-83) 1582 2.7445. 1583 2.7346. Sixpence A (1583-84/5) 1583 2.8947. 1584 2.7948. Sixpence escallop (15854/5-87) 1585 2.8349. Sixpence crescent (1587-89/90) 1588 2.7250. 1589 2.9351. Sixpence tun (1591/2-94) 1592 2.8652. Sixpence woolpack or key 1595 2.5553. Sixpence key (1595/6-97/8) 1596 1.97*54. Sixpence 2 (1602-3) 1602 2.5355. Three-halfpence eglantine (1574-8) 1574 0.956. Three-halfpence details illegible 1.03James I (1603-25)First Coinage (1603-4)57-60. Shilling thistle (1603-4) 2nd bust 5.93, 5.77, 4.68*, 4.42*61. Shilling thistle (1603-4) bust unclear 3.82*62. Shilling lis (1604-5) 2nd bust 6.1663. Sixpence thistle 2nd bust 1603 2.264. Sixpence lis 2nd bust 1604 3.03Second Coinage (1604-19)65-6. Shilling lis (1605) 3rd bust 5.09, 4.61*67-9. Shilling rose (1605-6) 4th bust 5.79, 5.69, 4.34*70-1. Shilling escallop (1606-7) 4th bust 4.53*, 4.48*72. Shilling coronet (1607-9) 4th bust 4.69*73. Shilling im unclear 4th bust 4.33*74. Shilling im unclear 5th bust 3.89*75. Sixpence rose 3rd bust 1604 2.4676. Sixpence rose 3rd bust 1605 2.09* 77. Sixpence escallop 4th bust 1606 2.74 Third Coinage (1619-25)78. Shilling thistle (1621-3) 6th bust 5.0779. Shilling lis (1623-4) 6th bust 4.8280-1. Shilling trefoil (1624) 6th bust 5.89, 5.7482. Sixpence trefoil 6th bust` 1624 2.59Charles I (1625-1649)Tower mint83-5. Half-crown portcullis (1633-4) N2207 13.8, 11.28*, 11.03*86-7. Half-crown bell (1634-5) N2209 15.1, 12.2688. Half-crown tun (1636-8) N2209 14.3889-91. Half-crown Group III, early horseman 11.21*, 10.76*, 9.85*92-3. Half-crown triangle (1639-40) N2212 13.28, 11.94*94. Half-crown star (1640-41) N2212 15.095-7. Half-crown triangle-in-circle (1641-3) 15.46, 14.48, 14.1898-100. Half-crown (P) (1643-4) N2214 14.89, 14.8, 12.02*101. Shilling lis (1625) N2216 5.69102. Shilling uncertain im N2216 5.22*103. Shilling rose (1631-2) plumes N2222 5.9 104. Shilling harp (1632-3) N2223 5.03*105-9. Shilling crown (1635-6) N2225 6.25, 5.99, 5.96, 5.89, 4.84*110-11. Shilling tun (1636-8) N2225 6.17, 4.77*112-16. Shilling anchor (1638-9) N2229 6.07, 5.95, 5.87, 5.79, 5.01*117. Shilling triangle (1639-40) N2229 5.95118-19. Shilling triangle (1639-40) N2231 6.03, 5.94120-4 Shilling star N2231 6.18, 6.09, 5.76, 5.44, 5.4*125-31. Shilling triangle-in-circle (1641-3) N2231 6.19, 6.11, 6.07, 6.03, 5.98, 5.91, 5.62132-6. Shilling (P) (1643-4) N2231 6.42, 6.19, 6.08, 5.39, 5.3137. Shilling uncertain im N2231 5.4*138-9. Sixpence tun (1636-8) N2241 3.39, 2.99140-1. Sixpence tun (1636-8) N2242 3.04, 3.03142. Sixpence anchor (1638-9) N2244 2.48143. Sixpence anchor (1638-9) N2245 2.45Other mints144. Half-crown Aberystwyth book N.2327 15.25145. Half-crown York (1643-4) Type 6 (N.2314) 14.97James I, IrelandFirst Coinage (1603-4)146. Shilling bell bust unclear 3.92147. Shilling im unclear bust unclear 3.74Second Coinage (1604-7)148. Shilling martlet 3rd bust 4.3149. Shilling rose bust unclear 4.1150. Shilling escallop 3rd bust 4.15151. Sixpence martlet 1st bust 1.98152-3. Sixpence rose 1st bust 1.99, 1.8Uncertain coinage154. Shilling 3.54ScotlandJames VIEighth coinage (1601-4)155-6. Thistle-merk date illegible 5.86, 5.15157. Half thistle-merk 1601 3.05158. Half thistle-merk date illegible 3.02Charles I159. 30-shillings IV S.5555 14.85Spanish NetherlandsPhilip IV of Spain (1621-65)160. Ducaton 327-1b Brabant, Antwerp 1639 32.68161. Half-ducaton 328-1a Brabant, Antwerp 1637 14.22162. Half-ducaton 328-1a Brabant, Antwerp 1636 16.39163. Half-ducaton 328-1a Brabant, Antwerp 1633 16.28Dr Barrie J. CookCurator of Medieval and Early Modern CoinageDepartment of Coins and MedalsBritish Museum25 February 2014
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