A MEDIEVAL PLANTAGENET SILVER PENNY COIN EDWARD I (1272 – 1307)

A MEDIEVAL PLANTAGENET SILVER PENNY COIN 

EDWARD I (1272 – 1307)

  A thirteenth-century medieval Plantagenet silver penny from the reign of Edward I (1272 – 1307).  Struck by hand with a hammer on a die at the London mint. A full-face portrait of King Edward I, obverse, and a long cross design on the reverse.

New coinage was introduced in 1279 within the seventh year of the reign of Edward I, following a period in which circulating coins had become significantly degraded through wear and tear together with practices of ‘clipping’ the edges of coins and of hoarding better specimens. This recoinage elevated coin art to an precedented level which, along with advances in die production, greatly improved the quality and appearance of coins.

Condition: (see photos)  

England, 1280-81