3 Shillings - Charles I 4th Coinage

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.