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inscription. Following the takeover of the Tower mint by the English Parliament in 1642, the same coin designs were produced until 1648 though with an older-looking bust of the king; this was to emphasise the fact that Parliaments' argument was not with the king but with his "evil advisors".
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produced a milled coinage which for the first time included pennies. The quality of Briot's coins is superb, and one can only conclude that the only reason the Tower mint was not turned over completely to machine production was professional jealousy from the other workers.
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and established his main mint there. Most pennies produced there were made from dies from the Aberystwyth mint, so they look very similar to Aberystwyth coins. There is a very rare "Declaration penny" produced in 1644 where the reverse contains the declaration
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coin) on the reverse. Following damage to the castle mint in 1648 there was a short-lived mint located at the actual silver mine in Aberystwyth in 1648/9, but no records have survived of what coins were produced there.
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which did not contain any Latin inscription at all. This was due to an association of Latin with Catholicism. As far as the Commonwealth penny is concerned, the inscriptions are totally absent. The reverse shows
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The first regular milled silver pennies appeared around 1664 or 1665 and are undated, weighing 0.5 grams and being 12 mm in diameter. They show the king facing left, with
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Anne's reign produced silver pennies in 1703, 1705, 1706, 1708, 1709, 1710, and 1713. The obverse of the coins show her left-facing bust with the inscription
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castle, Wales, to produce smaller coins (penny to half-crown) from locally produced silver. These are identifiable by having
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Charles's hammered pennies produced at the Tower originally had a design of a rose on both sides, with the inscription
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With the take-over by the English Parliament of the Tower mint in 1642, the king set up his permanent headquarters at
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The first coinage, of 1603–4, shows a bust of the king facing right with the inscription
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in 1694 the coins continued with King William's head facing right and the inscription
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in July 1643 and a mint was established there, producing pennies with the plume
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Despite having had ten pregnancies, none of Anne's children survived, and the
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behind the head to denote the denomination of one penny, with the inscription
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mint which operated between 1643 and April 1646 mainly produced crowns and
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Charles II by the grace of God King of Great Britain France and Ireland
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Charles by the grace of God King of Great Britain France and Ireland
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Coincraft's Standard Catalogue English & UK Coins 1066 to Date
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Following the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660 in the form of
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on the reverse. The second (1604–1619) and third coinages show a
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to help with the problem of small change. With inflation, the
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William III was succeeded in 1702 by Mary's younger sister,
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died unmarried and childless in 1603, the throne passed to
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Penny of the Commonwealth, with English and Irish shields.
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Following the birth of the Catholic James II's only son
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so a shilling Scots corresponded to an English penny.
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The same basic design continued in the short reign of
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eventually cost Charles both his crown and his head.
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