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1 Penny - Edward III 3rd coinage, London mint, class 2
| Issuer | England |
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| Year | 1344-1351 |
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| Reference(s) | Sp#1544, North#1114 |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (1344-1351) - Tower mint |
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Edward III's third coinage coincided with one of the most catastrophic demographic events in English history: the Black Death arrived in 1348 and killed roughly a third of the population within two years. Mint output from London collapsed as the workforce died or fled, making issues from the latter part of this class genuinely scarce relative to earlier strikes. Class 2 is distinguished from adjacent classes primarily by subtle differences in the crown form and letter shapes — distinctions that took decades of specialist work to codify reliably.