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1 Crown - Charles II 1st bust
| Issuer | England |
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| Year | 1662 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | MAG· BR·FRA· ET·HIB· REX·16 62· CC CC CC CC (Translation: King of Great Britain France and Ireland) |
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The 1662 crown marks England's first milled silver coinage of the Restoration, produced at the Tower Mint under the direction of Pierre Blondeau, the French engineer whose edge-lettering machinery had been rejected by the Commonwealth mint a decade earlier. Charles II personally championed Blondeau's methods to suppress the clipping epidemic that had plagued hammered coinage for generations. The first bust variety was replaced within the same year — surviving examples from this initial punch are considerably scarcer than the later issues of the same date.