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Charles I Rose Farthing type 4 mm crescent
Charles I (1625-49), copper Rose Farthing, "Peck" type 2e (1638-42), single arched crown over crossed sceptres within linear circle, handles intrude legend, Latin legend and outer beaded border surrounding both sides, initial mark crescent both sides, CAROLVS. D: G MAG: BRI;, rev. crowned rose within linear circle, crown to top of coin, FRA; ET. HI; REX, weight 0.88g (Peck 338 type 2e; S.3206 type 4b). Toned, good very fine, pleasing.
The abbreviated Latin legends translate as on the obverse "Charles by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain" continuing on the reverse "France and Ireland."
The Rose Farthing issue likely appeared in 1638 when Henry Frederick Howard as Lord Maltravers jointly held the patent for copper Farthings with Richard Crane brother of Sir Francis Crane, the latter having died in 1636. To try to solve the counterfeit problem a new sole patent was issued at £100 a year to Lord Maltravers, demonetising all the previous issues and continuing with the type 4 Rose Farthings as offered herewith. Maltravers now as Lord Mowbray lost control of the Token House in 1642 with the start of the Civil War and that is where the Rose Farthing issue ends.
Provenance:
This coin illustrated in "Coinage and Currency in Eighteenth Century Britain, The Provincial Coinage" by David W Dykes, page 14, number 18e.