closed 1638- 39 Charles I (1625-1649), Sixpence, Briot’s Second Milled issue,

[richatthecroft]

I’m offering this handsome 485 year old Sixpence in wonderful condition:

1638- 39 Charles I (1625-1649), Briot’s Second Milled issue, Sixpence, mm. anchor, 3.00g/7h (SCBI Brooker 732, same dies; N 2306; S 2860). 
Peripheral weakness and graffiti in obverse field, otherwise very fine.

Any questions please don’t hesitate to ask.

£475 posted

[Go65]

Hi

sorry to interrupt your sale of this beautiful coin…

the H graffiti near the crown, is this common?

I have an 1817 sovereign with similar scrawling but on the reverse and bigger.

Pretty sure it wasn’t the same person given the dates 😀

I have kind of given it a bit of a personal / special meaning, maybe like someone was trying to catch a thief or some other reason. Makes it a bit more personal and not that detrimental to its value in my view 😉 

[richatthecroft]

39 minutes ago, Go65 said:

Hi

sorry to interrupt your sale of this beautiful coin…

the H graffiti near the crown, is this common?

I have an 1817 sovereign with similar scrawling but on the reverse and bigger.

Pretty sure it wasn’t the same person given the dates 😀

I have kind of given it a bit of a personal / special meaning, maybe like someone was trying to catch a thief or some other reason. Makes it a bit more personal and not that detrimental to its value in my view 😉 

I guess we’ll never know what the true motivation was of an individual who graffitied any particular coin.

Although I don’t believe this is the case for this particular coin, but Sixpences, particularly hammered Sixpences were often gifted as ‘love tokens’- either graffitied or bent- there is a discussion about the topic here: 

https://www.thedetectinghub.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=1364

Edited November 14, 2023 by richatthecroft

[GodsMoney]

dear lord what a specimen. once i have my bullion up to a point im happy with id love to branch out into these speciality historical pieces. GLWS if still got it in 5 years or so let me know and ill be open to buying lol

[TheSilverForum]

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