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1/4 Dollar - Charles II 2nd Coinage
| Issuer | Edinburgh Mint |
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| Year | 1675-1682 |
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| Value | 1/4 Dollar (⅔) |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and draped bust of Charles II facing left, with long flowing curls falling behind the neck, the hair dressed with a laurel wreath tied at the rear with a ribbon bow. The truncation is unadorned. The portrait is rendered in high relief in the Restoration baroque style typical of Scottish milled coinage of the period. The peripheral legend is interrupted by the bust, reading · CAROLVS · II · to the left and · DEI · GRA · to the right, separated by pellet stops. The entire design is bounded by a beaded inner border and a reeded outer rim. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Charles II's Scottish coinage was administered separately from the English Royal Mint throughout his reign, with Edinburgh operating under a Master of the Mint who answered to the Scottish Privy Council rather than London. The second coinage series, authorised in the early 1670s, replaced a debased first issue that had drawn sustained complaints from Edinburgh merchants about inconsistent silver content. Production across the 1675–1682 window was irregular, tied directly to the availability of bullion at Holyrood, and surviving examples vary noticeably in strike quality for precisely that reason — not as a general characteristic of the type, but because the mint's supply chain was genuinely erratic.