Crown piece of Charles II
This coin isn’t a detecting find but I’m including it as it is rather interesting. Bill Wiggins said it was a gift from his grandfather about 40 years since but Bill had no idea where it originally came from.
The coin measures 38mm in diameter so it is a crown piece of Charles II. On the reverse the last two digits of the date are unclear but I thought they could be 8 and 2.
On milled silver crown pieces of Charles II thee is a date in two places. The first is on the reverse and tells us when the coin was struck. The second is on the edge and is known as the regnal year; it is in Latin and starts from the year that a king or queen came to the throne. When the date is indistinct the regnal year can help with dating a coin.
I asked Bill to check the edge of his coin and he told me that the regnal year was T (for TRICESIMO) QVARTO, which is 34 years. The regnal year on coins of Charles II start from the death of his father early in 1649, not the date when the monarchy was restored in 1660. Thus, Charles is said to be in his thirty-fourth year of his reign rather than his twenty-second. This proved that the date on the reverse of this coin is 1682.
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Bill’s crown piece would grade about Fine but it has a few scratches on the reverse. In its present condition my price range would be £70-90.
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