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3 Shillings - Charles I 4th Coinage
| Issuer | Scotland |
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| Year | 1642 |
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| Value | 3 Shillings (3⁄20) |
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| Reverse lettering | SALVS REIP SUPR LEX (Translation: The safety of the state is the supreme law) |
| Edge | Plain |
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Charles I's Scottish coinage was administered largely independently of his English issues, and by 1642 the political situation made even routine mint operations precarious — the Scottish Covenanters had effectively wrested control of the country from the crown the previous year. This 3 shilling piece belongs to the fourth Scottish coinage, a series produced at Edinburgh under increasingly strained royal authority.
Sp 5592 is not a common variety. Scottish silver of this period saw limited striking runs, and attrition from a century and a half of circulation before systematic collecting began has left genuine survivors genuinely thin on the ground.