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Description: | A modern (probably Victorian) forgery of a Civil war era Scarborough, or seige, Shilling.A rectangular flan (30mm long. One edge = 23mm wide. The opposite edge 28mm wide), slightly concave, with a castle and sun stamped into it. Below the castle is stamped an S and an I, representing a value of one shilling. There is a vertical groove along the left edge of the piece. The reverse is plain, but with the outline of the design on the obverse being slightly visible.Some scratch marks, possibly from use-wear but potentially from post-depositional damage, are on the upper right edge and corner.Dr. John Naylor of the Ashmolean Museum and Dr. Barrie Cook of the British Museum agree that this is a modern copy similar to common Victorian era forgeries in the numismatic collections of those museums.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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