https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/templates/general_wide/img/logo.png https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/ https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/coins/stuart-commonwealth-and-house-of-orange/contemporary-forgeries.html https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/coins/stuart-commonwealth-and-house-of-orange/contemporary-forgeries/george-imitation-farthing-58339.html Fri, 22 Nov 2024 10:17:29 GMT Contemporary forgeries  

Description:		Imitation fathing, or ’evasion’, depicting a bust resembling George II, but with a false legend. Towards the end of the 18th century, a large proportion of the copper coinage in circulation was unofficial or counterfeit. To avoid severe penalties for forgery, the manufacturers of these 'coins' made use of false legends, in this case using GEORGE RULES in place of GEORGIVS II REX.
Category:		Stuart, Commonwealth and House of Orange, Contemporary forgeries
Category:		Contemporary forgeries

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/coins/stuart-commonwealth-and-house-of-orange/contemporary-forgeries/charles-ii-guinea-contemporary-forgery-58338.html Fri, 22 Nov 2024 10:01:25 GMT Contemporary forgeries  

Description:		A very crude base-metal forgery of a Charles II guinea. The forgery is severely mis-struck, exhibiting both die misalignment and double striking. In this state, it would most likely have been discarded before being gilded and put into circulation.
Category:		Stuart, Commonwealth and House of Orange, Contemporary forgeries
Category:		Contemporary forgeries

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/coins/stuart-commonwealth-and-house-of-orange/contemporary-forgeries/charles-i-halfcrown-contemporary-forgery-57846.html Thu, 08 Feb 2024 14:19:46 GMT Contemporary forgeries  

Description:		Charles I 'Tower mint' halfcrown. Initial mark, uncertain. The coin has crumbled edges, which along with severe and probably deliberate cracks caused by bending, reveal brittle fracture surfaces. It is very worn and underweight and most likely a contemporary forgery.
Category:		Stuart, Commonwealth and House of Orange, Contemporary forgeries
Category:		Contemporary forgeries

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/coins/stuart-commonwealth-and-house-of-orange/contemporary-forgeries/charles-i-royal-farthing-contemporary-forgery-11252.html Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT Contemporary forgeries  

Description:		Charles I counterfeit royal farthing. No genuine farthings of this issue exist with cross pattée privy mark and CARO-BRIT legend, The use of a colon after ET is also anomalous. C W Peck (Emglish Copper, Tin and Bronze Coins in the British Museum) notes "Despite Weightman's recordings it appears from the evidence so far available that no genuine CARO-BRIT pieces with the large 9/9 jewelled crowns exist." Tim Everson (The Farthing Tokens of James I & Charles I - see ref below) concurs.
Category:		Stuart, Commonwealth and House of Orange, Contemporary forgeries
Category:		Contemporary forgeries

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/coins/stuart-commonwealth-and-house-of-orange/contemporary-forgeries/james-i-royal-farthing-contemporary-forgery-55240.html Sat, 25 Apr 2020 16:58:14 GMT Contemporary forgeries  

Description:		A contemporary forgery of a James I royal farthing. Privy mark, three fleurs-de-lis, obverse only. The following irregularities are present: 1. The obverse abbreviation BRIT (rather than BRI) in combination with the three-lis privy mark is unknown for a genuine farthing. (C W Peck, BM Cat.) 2. The reverse crown appears to have only five pearls on the band, instead of the nine found on genuine farthings. 3. The style is very coarse.
Category:		Stuart, Commonwealth and House of Orange, Contemporary forgeries
Category:		Contemporary forgeries

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/coins/stuart-commonwealth-and-house-of-orange/contemporary-forgeries/charles-i-halfcrown-contemporary-forgery-54852.html Fri, 29 Nov 2019 15:17:34 GMT Contemporary forgeries  

Description:		A contemporary base-metal forgery of a Charles I Tower mint halfcrown with initial mark plume (1630-1631). Images 4, 5 and 6 show the coin after cleaning and reveal the silvery appearance the coin would originally have had.
Category:		Stuart, Commonwealth and House of Orange, Contemporary forgeries
Category:		Contemporary forgeries

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/coins/stuart-commonwealth-and-house-of-orange/contemporary-forgeries/william-iii-sixpence-contemporary-forgery-16276.html Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT Contemporary forgeries  

Description:		A contemporary cast forgery of a William III York sixpence dated 1697. The coin copies the rare error striking with Irish, instead of English, shield at date.
Category:		Stuart, Commonwealth and House of Orange, Contemporary forgeries
Category:		Contemporary forgeries

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/coins/stuart-commonwealth-and-house-of-orange/contemporary-forgeries/james-i-shilling-contemporary-forgery-23541.html Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Contemporary forgeries  

Description:		A contemporary forgery of a James I shilling. It copies a second coinage type with initial mark, lis (cf. UKDFD 8891). The coin would originally have been silver-plated. It has been nail-bored through the centre
Category:		Stuart, Commonwealth and House of Orange, Contemporary forgeries
Category:		Contemporary forgeries

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/coins/stuart-commonwealth-and-house-of-orange/contemporary-forgeries/charles-i-twenty-pence-scotland-contemporary-forgery-21856.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT Contemporary forgeries  

Description:		A crude contemporary forgery of a Charles I, third coinage, twenty-pence of Scotland. The two C's in the obverse legend are reversed, and the word ET is omitted. The letter O is omitted from THRONVM on the reverse. UKDFD 8511 is a genuine coin of this type.
Category:		Stuart, Commonwealth and House of Orange, Contemporary forgeries
Category:		Contemporary forgeries

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/coins/stuart-commonwealth-and-house-of-orange/contemporary-forgeries/charles-i-shilling-contemporary-forgery-28613.html Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT Contemporary forgeries  

Description:		A contemporary forgery of a Charles I Tower Mint shilling with initial mark triangle in circle. The coin has a copper-alloy core and a cladding of silver.
Category:		Stuart, Commonwealth and House of Orange, Contemporary forgeries
Category:		Contemporary forgeries

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