Double Crown - Charles II 2nd Issue

This issue belongs to the earliest weeks of the Restoration mint, produced before the hammered coinage was formally demonetized in 1662. Charles II's second hammered issue was struck almost simultaneously with preparations for the great milled recoinage — a logistical overlap that created administrative chaos at the Tower Mint, where aging hammermen and the new horse-powered milling equipment operated in parallel. The window of production was narrow enough that surviving examples saw almost no meaningful circulation before hammered gold was called in.