Charles I Silver Sixpence 1625-49AD Civil War – Newark Besieged 1646AD

Charles I Silver Sixpence 1625-49AD Civil War – Newark Besieged 1646AD

31x32mm, 2.97g

A pleasing example on a large flan, a little staining but this doesn’t detract in hand.

Siege money was struck in Newark during the siege in 1646, which was the last year of the First English Civil War. The besieged Royalists set up a mint and used salvers, flagons, drinking cups, etc., fashioned into lozenge-shaped flans, striking half-crowns, shillings, ninepences, and sixpences in order to be able to continue paying the troops who were defending their king (payment required!).