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Cliff

Halfcrown description query

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In Maurice Bull's "English Silver Coinage since 1649" he  shows the number of harp strings and billets per silver currency coin year/types in the "Varieties, comments etc" column of his description tables (eg 6s - 9b).  The billet count ceased wef George 1 and was replaced by a hts count, whilst retaining the harp string count (eg 6s - 5hts) and continued through George II, after which they stop.

Forgive my meanderings but what are hts's?

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30 minutes ago, Cliff said:

In Maurice Bull's "English Silver Coinage since 1649" he  shows the number of harp strings and billets per silver currency coin year/types in the "Varieties, comments etc" column of his description tables (eg 6s - 9b).  The billet count ceased wef George 1 and was replaced by a hts count, whilst retaining the harp string count (eg 6s - 5hts) and continued through George II, after which they stop.

Forgive my meanderings but what are hts's?

Probably not much help, but I don't suppose there's an abbreviations page towards the back of the book, is there? 

If not somebody on here will know straight off, I'd bet. 

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Tried that Mike and thumbed through my motley collection of books to no avail. Also tried the web for any heraldic clues etc but no go. I recall I had to do quite a bit of fumbling about a while ago to find out what a billet is.

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Try hearts. The Hanoverian shield has hearts on it as noted on the 1787 coinage, so would be appropriate for anything commencing with G1.

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Smack on the button, thanks Rob.  Plain as daylight now they're pointed out to me but it needed your expertise to open my eyes!

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