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12 Shillings - Charles I 3rd Coinage, 4th Issue
| Issuer | Scotland |
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| Year | 1639-1641 |
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| Composition | Silver (.925) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Charles I's Scottish coinage was administered through a crown-controlled mint in Edinburgh, and the 4th Issue of the 3rd Coinage falls squarely within the period when his relations with Scotland were collapsing. The Bishops' Wars of 1639–1640 — Scotland's armed resistance to Charles's imposition of Anglican liturgy — were already underway when these pieces were being struck, making this a coin produced by a king actively at war with the very country whose money he was issuing.
The 12 shilling denomination was peculiar to Scotland's independent monetary system, which ran on a pound valued at one-twelfth of the English pound sterling.