Edwardian Sterlings
Sterling imitations with 'English' legends
This group of coins closely copies the English sterlings in style as in legends. Some crude, others are of excellent style.
Large quantities are known and therefor it is almost impossible to think that these are minted in England. It was too dangerous to illegally strike coins on a large scale. Also the English authorities had no doubt that anonymous copies were coming from abroad.
It is almost impossible to attribute these imitations to a certain mint, but Kuinre could be a an option.
More info can be found in the books by Mayhew and Chautard.
Sterling, "Edward I", "London", ca. 1295, Mayhew 374a-h
| Reign/Issue Authority: | "Edward I" |
| Denomination/Type: | Sterling |
| Mint: | "London" (Kuinre?) |
| Issue date: | Ca. 1295 |
| Weight: | 1,22 gr |
| Diameter: | 19 mm |
| Rarity: | R1 |
| Reference: | Mayhew 374a-h |
| Catalogue #: | 0064 |
| Obverse description: | Crowned bust facing. |
| Obverse legend: | +ЄDWRЄANGL'DNShYB |
| Reverse description: | Long cross pattee with three pellets in each angle. |
| Reverse legend: | CIVI TAS LON DON |
| Extra info: | ЄDWRЄ series. |
Sterling, "Edward I", "London", ca. 1295, Mayhew 374a-h
| Reign/Issue Authority: | "Edward I" |
| Denomination/Type: | Sterling |
| Mint: | "London" (Kuinre?) |
| Issue date: | Ca. 1295 |
| Weight: | 1,08 gr |
| Diameter: | 19 mm |
| Rarity: | R1 |
| Reference: | Mayhew 374a-h |
| Catalogue #: | 0132 |
| Obverse description: | Crowned bust facing. |
| Obverse legend: | +ЄDWRЄANGL'DNShYB |
| Reverse description: | Long cross pattee with three pellets in each angle. |
| Reverse legend: | CIVI TAS LON DON |
| Extra info: | ЄDWRЄ series. |
Sterling, "Edward I", "London", ca. 1295, Mayhew 374i-m
| Reign/Issue Authority: | "Edward I" |
| Denomination/Type: | Sterling |
| Mint: | "London" (Kuinre?) |
| Issue date: | Ca. 1295 |
| Weight: | 1,04 gr |
| Diameter: | 18 mm |
| Rarity: | R1 |
| Reference: | Mayhew 374i-m |
| Catalogue #: | 0203 |
| Obverse description: | Crowned bust facing. |
| Obverse legend: | +ЄDWRЄANGL'DNƧhYB |
| Reverse description: | Long cross pattee with three pellets in each angle. |
| Reverse legend: | CIVI TAƧ LON DON |
| Extra info: | ЄDWRЄ series. |
Sterling, "Edward I", "London", ca. 1295, Mayhew 374var
| Reign/Issue Authority: | "Edward I" |
| Denomination/Type: | Sterling |
| Mint: | "London" (Kuinre?) |
| Issue date: | Ca. 1295 |
| Weight: | 1,25 gr |
| Diameter: | 18 mm |
| Rarity: | R3 |
| Reference: | Mayhew 374var |
| Catalogue #: | 0280 |
| Obverse description: | Crowned bust facing. |
| Obverse legend: | +ЄDWRЄANGL'DNƧYB |
| Reverse description: | Long cross pattee with three pellets in each angle. |
| Reverse legend: | CIVI TAƧ LON DON |
| Extra info: | ЄDWRЄ series, variant of Mayhew 374i-m omitting h in obverse legend. |
Sterling, "Edward I", "London", ca. 1295, Mayhew 376var
| Reign/Issue Authority: | "Edward I" |
| Denomination/Type: | Sterling |
| Mint: | "London" (Kuinre?) |
| Issue date: | Ca. 1295 |
| Weight: | 0,99 gr |
| Diameter: | 19 mm |
| Rarity: | R4 |
| Reference: | Mayhew 376var |
| Catalogue #: | 0109 |
| Obverse description: | Crowned bust facing. |
| Obverse legend: | +ЄDWRЄXAИGL'DИƧYB |
| Reverse description: | Long cross pattee with three pellets in each angle. |
| Reverse legend: | CIVI TAS LOИ DOИ |
| Extra info: | ЄDWRЄ series. This imitation was presumable copied from the scarce early English pennies which spell out REX in full in the legend. |
Sterling, "Edward I", "London", ca. 1315, Mayhew 377
| Reign/Issue Authority: | "Edward I" |
| Denomination/Type: | Sterling |
| Mint: | "London" |
| Issue date: | Ca. 1315 |
| Weight: | 1,39 gr |
| Diameter: | 19x20 mm |
| Rarity: | R2 |
| Reference: | Mayhew 377 |
| Catalogue #: | 0130 |
| Obverse description: | Crowned bust facing. |
| Obverse legend: | +ЄDWARRANGLDNShYB |
| Reverse description: | Long cross pattee with three pellets in each angle. |
| Reverse legend: | CIVI TAS LON DON |
| Extra info: | ЄDWARRA series. |
Sterling, "Edward I", "Waterford", ca. 1315, Mayhew 381c
| Reign/Issue Authority: | "Edward I" |
| Denomination/Type: | Sterling |
| Mint: | "Waterford" |
| Issue date: | Ca. 1315 |
| Weight: | 0,93 gr |
| Diameter: | 17 mm |
| Rarity: | R2 |
| Reference: | Mayhew 381c |
| Catalogue #: | 0039 |
| Obverse description: | Crowned bust facing. |
| Obverse legend: | +ЄDWR'ANGLDNShYB |
| Reverse description: | Long cross pattee with three pellets in each angle. |
| Reverse legend: | CIVI TAS VATЄ RFOR |
| Extra info: | English obverse, Irish reverse. |
Sterling, "Edward I", "London", ca. 1310-15, Mayhew 382
| Reign/Issue Authority: | "Edward I" |
| Denomination/Type: | Sterling |
| Mint: | "London" |
| Issue date: | Ca. 1310-15 |
| Weight: | 0,88 gr |
| Diameter: | 17x18 mm |
| Rarity: | R4 |
| Reference: | Mayhew 382 |
| Catalogue #: | 0153 |
| Obverse description: | Crowned bust facing. |
| Obverse legend: | +ЄDWARnTSNOhVB |
| Reverse description: | Long cross pattee with three pellets in each angle. |
| Reverse legend: | CIVI TAS LON DON |
| Extra info: | About 10 coins are known, all from the same dies. Analysis suggests they are made principally of tin. Probably all these coins come from the same find in Thonberg near Leipzig, Germany, in 1881 and reported by Dannenberg in Zeitschrift für Numismatik 11, 1884, p882. This is an other example from a German private collection. |
Sterling, "Edward I", "?", ca. 1310-15, Mayhew 404a var
| Reign/Issue Authority: | "Edward I" |
| Denomination/Type: | Sterling |
| Mint: | "?" |
| Issue date: | Ca. 1310-15 |
| Weight: | 0,89 gr |
| Diameter: | 17x18 mm |
| Rarity: | R4 |
| Reference: | Mayhew 404a var |
| Catalogue #: | 0258 |
| Obverse description: | Crowned bust facing. |
| Obverse legend: | +ЄDWRANGLDNShYB |
| Reverse description: | Long cross pattee with three pellets in each angle. |
| Reverse legend: | SIG NVN CRV SIS |
| Extra info: | |
Sterling, "Edward I", "York", ca. 1310-15, SCBI 39, 1180
| Reign/Issue Authority: | "Edward I" |
| Denomination/Type: | Sterling |
| Mint: | "York" |
| Issue date: | Ca. 1310-15 |
| Weight: | 1,03 gr |
| Diameter: | 17x18 mm |
| Rarity: | R4 |
| Reference: | SCBI 39, 1180 |
| Catalogue #: | 0283 |
| Obverse description: | Crowned bust facing. |
| Obverse legend: | +ЄDWRANGLDNShYB |
| Reverse description: | Long cross pattee with three pellets in each angle, quatrefoil in centre. |
| Reverse legend: | CIVI TAS ЄBO RACI |
| Extra info: | Imitating a class 3g penny but the York mint closed at class 3e. |
Sterling, "England", "Edward I", "London", ca. 1300, -
| Reign/Issue Authority: | "Edward I" |
| Denomination/Type: | Sterling |
| Mint: | "London" |
| Issue date: | Ca. 1300 |
| Weight: | 0,95 gr |
| Diameter: | 18 mm |
| Rarity: | R3 |
| Reference: | - |
| Catalogue #: | 0105 |
| Obverse description: | Crowned bust facing. |
| Obverse legend: | +ЄDWRANGLDNShYB |
| Reverse description: | Long cross pattee with three pellets in each angle. |
| Reverse legend: | CIVI TAS LON DON |
| Extra info: | Ex Llanddona Hoard, the Isle of Anglesey, Wales. More info, click here.
Link to a BBC News website story on the hoard, click here.
The article of Mr. Edward Besly, "A Fourteenth Century Hoard from LLanddona, Anglesey", BNJ 72, pp169-171, 2002, click here. |
Sterling, "Edward I", "London", ca. 1310, -
| Reign/Issue Authority: | "Edward I" |
| Denomination/Type: | Sterling |
| Mint: | "London" |
| Issue date: | Ca. 1310 |
| Weight: | 1,09 gr |
| Diameter: | 19 mm |
| Rarity: | R1 |
| Reference: | - |
| Catalogue #: | 0040 |
| Obverse description: | Crowned bust facing. |
| Obverse legend: | +ЄDWRЄANGR'DNShYB |
| Reverse description: | Long cross pattee with three pellets in each angle. |
| Reverse legend: | CIVI TAS LON LON |
| Extra info: | Note the error's LON LON and ANGR (ANGL), 1 other (die duplicate) known to me. |
Sterling, "England", "Edward I", "London", ca. 1300, -
| Reign/Issue Authority: | "Edward I" |
| Denomination/Type: | Sterling |
| Mint: | "London" |
| Issue date: | Ca. 1300 |
| Weight: | 0,78 gr |
| Diameter: | 18 mm |
| Rarity: | R3 |
| Reference: | - |
| Catalogue #: | 0146 |
| Obverse description: | Crowned bust facing. |
| Obverse legend: | +ЄDWRANGLDNShYB |
| Reverse description: | Long cross pattee with three pellets in each angle. |
| Reverse legend: | CIVI TAS LON DON |
| Extra info: | |
Sterling, "England", "Edward I", "Canterbury", ca. 1300, -
| Reign/Issue Authority: | "Edward I" |
| Denomination/Type: | Sterling |
| Mint: | "Canterbury" |
| Issue date: | Ca. 1300 |
| Weight: | 0,92 gr |
| Diameter: | 15x17 mm |
| Rarity: | R3 |
| Reference: | - |
| Catalogue #: | 0197 |
| Obverse description: | Crowned bust facing. |
| Obverse legend: | +ЄD[WΛR]ΛNGLDNShYB |
| Reverse description: | Long cross pattee with three pellets in each angle. |
| Reverse legend: | [CIVI] TΛS LON DON |
| Extra info: | Imitation of an Edwardian penny of class 10-15, probably class 10cf. See UKDFD No. - 40648. |
Sterling, "England", "Edward I", "London", ca. 1300, -
| Reign/Issue Authority: | "Edward I" |
| Denomination/Type: | Sterling |
| Mint: | "London" |
| Issue date: | Ca. 1300 |
| Weight: | 1,12 gr |
| Diameter: | 18 mm |
| Rarity: | R3 |
| Reference: | - |
| Catalogue #: | 0212 |
| Obverse description: | Crowned bust facing. |
| Obverse legend: | +ЄDWRANGLDNShYB |
| Reverse description: | Long cross pattee with three pellets in each angle. |
| Reverse legend: | CIVI TAS LON DON |
| Extra info: | |
