A New History of the Royal MintC. E. Challis This major study traces the development of English minting from its origins in the seventh-century down to the highly mechanised factory production of the twentieth-century. It brings together the complementary skills of specialists who are already well-known for their distinctive contributions to the history of minting and coinage, and breaks ground by providing prevalent synthesis and analysis not only of numismatic and historical literature but also of primary sources. In each of the five chapters the location of minting, the chronology and size of output, mint personnel and organisation, and the main technology employed are closely described and analysed to reveal precisely what the main challenges to the Mint have been during its long history, and with what effect it has faced up to them. There are two substantial appendices - one on output from 1220 to 1985, the other on Mint contracts from 1279 to 1817 - a select bibliography, and copious illustrations in the form of 80 figures and maps. |
Contents
3 | 18 |
English Mint Series from Offa to Ecgberht | 22 |
English Coins from Aethelwulf to Alfred and Early Vikings | 36 |
13 | 39 |
Named English Mints of the AngloSaxon and Norman | 42 |
The Renovatio System of the Late Saxon and Norman Periods | 49 |
English Coins from Athelstan to Stephen | 52 |
Mints of the AngloSaxon and Norman Periods 88 | 60 |
The Gold and Silver Trial Plates of 1477 | 188 |
Known Output of English Gold and Silver Coin Tower | 191 |
Output at York and Bristol 14691472 | 197 |
Output of Gold and Silver Coin Tower Mint 14621544 | 199 |
Net Profits accounted for by the Warden of the Tower | 211 |
Particulars of the Account of William Stafford Warden of | 213 |
Sir Martin Bowes 14971566 | 231 |
Estimated Output of Debased English Coin 15441551 | 233 |
Technology | 65 |
FROM REGIONAL TO CENTRAL MINTING 11581464 | 85 |
Coins from the Short Cross Period to the Reign of Edward I | 100 |
Part of the Ready Reckoner from A Treatise on the | 125 |
Summary Table of Mint Charges 12781464 | 134 |
Profit and Loss at London and Canterbury 13221344 | 146 |
Dies for Groats and HalfGroats of Edward III | 156 |
Gold and Groats from Edward III to Henry VI | 164 |
LORD HASTINGS TO THE GREAT SILVER RECOINAGE | 179 |
Common terms and phrases
30 Sept 6d per lb accounts Annual Report appointed April assay master assayer Athelstan blanks bullion Calais Canterbury century clerk Coenwulf Coinage charges comptroller copper Crondall Crown CSP Domestic debasement Denominations deputy master dwt per lb Eadberht East Anglia Ecgberht Edward England English coinage engraver Exchange Exchequer farthings Fineness & value gold 23 gold and silver goldsmiths halfpence Henry Henry II indenture issue James John king king's lb Provision lb silver lb Tower Llantrisant London Long Cross March mark and pyx medals melting Mercian metal Mint's mintage moneyers obverse output oz 2 dwt paid payments penny period pipe rolls pound privy mark production profits Provision for privy pyx trial recoinage reign Remedies Royal Mint Royal Mint Collection seigniorage shear and assay silver 2 dwt silver coins sterling struck Tealby Tower Hill Tower Mint trial plates warden weight William York ΙΟ