Charles Three pound Trial piece

[kal]

With regards to the gun money query, there is an interesting article on Jeffrey Hearn and gun money re-strikes - see link: http://www.petitioncrown.com/Pewter_Gunmoney_Crown.html

[rpeddie]

thanks for that was a good read

What was the reason again for the addition of copper plug to the coins (same with the farthings of the time)?

Was this to try get people to associate a newly made tin coin(worth less than copper at the time i would assume?) as having some intrinsic value?

[Rob]

thanks for that was a good read

What was the reason again for the addition of copper plug to the coins (same with the farthings of the time)?

Was this to try get people to associate a newly made tin coin(worth less than copper at the time i would assume?) as having some intrinsic value?

Made it more difficult for the counterfeiters

[rpeddie]

managed to stumble on these last weekend

looks like the crown was maybe purchased in the 80's?

quite a fortunate stumble

(Dublin 1000 years of irish coinage museum)