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1/2 Crown - James I 2nd coinage
| Issuer | Royal Mint |
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| Year | 1604-1607 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | King James I depicted on horseback in full armour, riding to the left, brandishing a sword raised above his head in his right hand, with a caparisoned horse beneath him. The king wears a plumed helmet and full plate armour. The entire equestrian figure is enclosed within a beaded inner circle, with a Latin legend running around the outer border reading IACOBUS D G MAG BRIT H REX. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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James I's second coinage, introduced in 1604, coincided with his attempt to unify the monetary systems of England and Scotland following the union of the crowns the previous year. The halfcrown denomination itself had a complicated institutional life under James — output was modest, dies were shared across multiple denominations with predictable failure rates, and the series is riddled with enough variation in mintmark sequence to keep attribution genuinely difficult.
Spink 2653 places this squarely in the rose/lis mintmark transition period. Die cracking on the reverse is frequently encountered on surviving examples.