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1 Noble - Edward III Pre-Treaty period, series G
| Issuer | England |
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| Year | 1356-1361 |
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| Composition | Gold |
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| Obverse description | King Edward III stands facing in a large medieval warship, depicted in full armour and wearing a crown, his right hand brandishing a raised sword and his left arm bearing a large heraldic shield quartered with the arms of England and France. The ship's hull is decorated with small shields and the rigging, mast, and billowing sail are rendered in fine detail above the royal figure. Stylised waves fill the lower field beneath the hull, conveying the maritime theme emblematic of England's naval power. A continuous inner beaded circle separates the central design from the surrounding marginal legend, which runs clockwise in Gothic uncial lettering. |
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| Reverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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Series G falls within Edward III's Pre-Treaty coinage, struck before the monetary adjustments formalized at the Treaty of Brétigny in 1360 — a period when English war finance was under sustained pressure from the ongoing Hundred Years' War. The Calais mint, captured in 1347, was producing nobles alongside London and York during this window, and distinguishing mint attribution within Series G often depends on the annulet or pellet stops in the inscription rather than any single defining feature.
North 1182 is among the more precisely subdivided references in the Pre-Treaty sequence, reflecting how densely Blunt and Whitton's earlier work was later refined by die study.