COIN

Unique ID: LVPL-906053

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

Notes:

A number of coins of the 16th and 17th centuries have been noted on this database with such extreme clipping. These include HAMP-EDC856 and SUSS-313CC7. Coins such as a shilling of Charles I dating to the 1630s or 1640s (SUSS-10FC38) have received similar clipping. A number of explanations have been suggested for this phenomenon including reduction for use as part of a jewellery item or as a gaming piece.

Most plausible, perhaps, is the simple extraction of silver from the circumference without invalidating the coin. This is explained in the following quotation from Besly (1997, 22): "Older 'hammered' coinage continued to form the bulk of the circulating currency until the 1690s, by which time it was mostly in a poor state. The Great Recoinage of 1696-7 converted this into the modern 'milled' money, but a decision to exchange all old coins for new at face value, provided that they had not been clipped within the 'inner circle' of their designs, unleashed a final epidemic of clipping."

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1584

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Thickness: 0.55 mm
Weight: 1.3 g
Diameter: 18.91 mm

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st May 2010

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Incomplete

Coin data (numismatics)

Denomination: Shilling
Ruler/issuer: Elizabeth I of England
Mint or issue place: The Tower of London
Category: English coin early Modern 1489 - 1660
Type: Shilling: Elizabeth I, not further defined (N 1985, 2014, 2022, 2023)
Obverse description: Worn.
Reverse description: Long cross fourchee over square shield, 1584 above.
Degree of wear: Extremely worn: poor