1/2 Crown - Charles I Tower mint under the King, group III

Tower Mint production under Charles I was interrupted and eventually halted altogether when Parliament seized the mint in 1642, forcing the king's coinage operations to scatter across a series of emergency provincial mints at Shrewsbury, Oxford, and elsewhere. Group III pieces from the final Tower years therefore straddle the outbreak of Civil War, with some struck under royal authority and others potentially during the chaotic transitional period before Parliamentary control was consolidated.

The Spink 2775 attribution places this within a tightly defined emission sequence distinguished primarily by inner stops and mm varieties — the specific mint mark on a given example determines where it falls in that 1636–1643 window.