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6 Shillings - Charles I 1st Coinage
| Issuer | Scotland |
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| Year | 1625-1634 |
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| Value | 6 Shillings (0.3) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Charles I inherited the Scottish mint along with the English crown in 1625, and his first Scottish coinage was struck at Edinburgh under the master of the mint Nicholas Briot's predecessor before Briot's appointment in 1635 reorganized production entirely. The 6 shilling denomination was peculiar to Scotland — no equivalent circulated in England — reflecting the persistent divergence between the two kingdoms' monetary systems despite sharing a monarch for over two decades by this point.
Spink 5543 is characteristically poorly struck on irregular planchets, a known production issue of the Edinburgh mint in this period rather than a grade-dependent variable.