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½ Crown - Charles I (Newark siege coinage)
Country: England
(United Kingdom)
Denomination: 1/2 Crown
(1/8 LSD)
Year: 1645-1646
Material: Silver
Weight: 15.13 g
Shape: Rhomboidal
Diameter:
Type: Common coin
Catalog list: englandunited kingdom
Description:
Obverse
Large crown between m letters C R, denomination XXX below. The reference to Charles the First shows that the city was held by royalists in the English civil war.
Reverse
Lettering only, denoting that the coin was made at Newark during the third siege of the city (1645-6), part the English civil war.
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