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| Emittent | Royal Mint (Tower Mint) |
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| Jahr | 1639-1645 |
| Typ | Standard circulation coin |
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| Aversbeschreibung | Laureate and draped bust of King Charles I facing left, rendered in the style of the sixth bust (group F), with long flowing hair falling to the shoulder and the king wearing a lace-trimmed collar. The Roman numeral VI denoting the denomination appears to the right of the effigy in the field. The bust is contained within a beaded inner circle, with the Latin royal legend disposed around the periphery between the inner circle and the outer rim, interrupted by a mintmark at the beginning of the legend. |
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| Reversschrift | Latin |
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Charles I's Tower Mint sixpences from this period were struck against the mounting pressure of a kingdom sliding toward civil war. The group F coinage was produced during the years leading directly into the First English Civil War, when the Crown's financial difficulties were acute enough that Charles had already attempted to bypass Parliament for revenue — a provocation central to the conflict that would eventually cost him his head. Mint output was increasingly disrupted from 1642 onward as Royalist and Parliamentary forces both sought control of revenue streams.
Spink 2817 and 2818 differ by inner stop details on the reverse — a distinction meaningful to specialists but easy to overlook without direct comparison.