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1 Crown - Charles I Truro mint
| Issuer | England |
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| Year | 1642-1643 |
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| Value | 1 Crown |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Charles I's Truro mint operated for only a matter of months in 1642–43, established to convert Cornish silver and plate donations from Royalist supporters directly into coin to pay troops. Cornwall was then the heartland of Royalist support, and the local gentry stripped their households to fund the war. The output was small, the dies crude by London standards, and the operation moved — along with the Royalist cause in the West — before Parliamentary forces closed in.
Sp#3045 crowns from Truro are among the rarest of the siege and provincial issues, produced under field conditions with irregular planchets.