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My Medieval Silver Hammered Coins

Description: English Hammered Coins .

The photo below ( centre) was taken at the Museum of London, and shows several hammered silver coins along with the devices from which they were fabricated.

A thin blank disk of silver/gold would be placed between each of these dies (which were placed one atop the other) and then "hammered" by hand to imprint the obverse (left die) and reverse (right die) of the coin.

In England from the time of the Norman invasion (1066 ad), silver was the main metal used for hammering. Gold was coined only regularly from 1344 and base metal Farthings were first issued during the early 1600s.

In 1662, with the introduction of Roettiers improved mill and screw press, the hand hammering of coins was abandoned.

This is a Silver penny of Edward 1st

Circa. 1272 - 1307 a.d.

This is the Obverse & Reverse of a Henry 111 Penny.

Circa. 1251 - 1272 a.d.

This is an Edward 3rd Half Groat, Circa. 1361 a.d.

This is a Silver Penny of Edward 1st. Class b. London, Circa, 1272 to 1307.

An Edward 4th Groat, Circa. 1462

This is a silver Penny of Edward 2nd, Circa.1307 - 1327 a.d.

Obverse & Reverse of an Edward 3rd Groat, Circa 1351 - 1377

The 2 coins on the right are a Mary Groat 1553 to 54,which has 2 bends going across it, ( Left ), love token too? and a Phillip and Mary Groat 1554 to 1558. They were reported as treasure, dis-claimed and then later returned to me.