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Description: In 1646, To meet the urgent demands for money, during the siege of Newark-on-Trent, the Royalists set up a mint that manufactured lozenge-shaped coin — half-crowns, shillings, ninepences, and sixpences.
Title: English Civil War siege money from Newark-on-Trent
Credit: Brown, Cornelius (1904) History of Newark-on-Trent; being the life story of an ancient town, volume II, Newark: Whiles, page 109
Author: Cornelius Brown
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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