| Country | Great Britain |
|---|---|
| Ruler | Charles I (1625-49) |
| Face Value | Crown |
| Year of issue | 1635 |
| Metal | Silver |
| Fineness | 925 |
| Catalogue # | KM# 131; SPINK 2759; North 2196 |
| Weight, g. | 29,79 |
| Diameter, mm. | 43,0 |
| Our code | Z336 |
| Die Axis | ↑← |
| Additional info | Tower mint, Group III, type 3b, mm. Crown |
Great Britain, Charles I, Crown 1635, mm. crown, NGC VF 35
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Obverse: King Charles I on horse left, sword upright in right hand, horse is without caparisons, Group III, type 3b, legend around.
Legend: ·CAROLVS· D: G: MAG: BRI: FR: ET· HI: REX·:·
Unabridged legend: Carolus Dei Gratia Magnae Britanniae Franciae Et Hiberniae Rex
Translation: Charles by the Grace of God King of Great Britain France & Ireland
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Reverse: Oval shield with arms (lion, fleur de lis, harp) with plume above; crown mintmarks, legend around.
Legend: · CHRISTO · AVSPICE · REGNO ·
Unabridged legend: Christo Auspice Regno
Translation: I reign under the auspices of Christ
The pictures provided are of the actual coin for sale.
Guaranteed genuine.
You can verify NGC certification numbers: 3825507-009
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History
In 1635, Charles I was a king who believed, with absolute and fatal sincerity, that he answered to God alone.
Six years had passed since he had dissolved Parliament and began his period of Personal Rule – governing England without its elected assembly, raising revenue by reviving ancient royal prerogatives that most of his subjects had assumed were long dead. The most controversial of these was Ship Money, a medieval tax traditionally levied on coastal towns in times of war. In October 1635, the very year this coin was struck, Charles issued a second Ship Money writ – this time extending it to the inland counties of England during peacetime. The country stirred with quiet, dangerous indignation. Men who had never thought of themselves as revolutionaries began to think about the nature of royal authority, about Magna Carta, about what a king was permitted to do.
The crown of 1635 was a hammered silver coin – struck at the Tower Mint in London by hand, as English coins had been made for centuries. On the obverse, Charles rides on horseback, armored and serene, the image of sovereign power unchallenged. It was a deliberately chosen image. The king on horseback was not merely a portrait; it was a statement – the ancient symbol of military authority, of a monarch above the fray, ordained and untouchable.
Within seven years of this coin’s minting, England would be at war with itself. Parliament and Crown would face each other across battlefields from Edgehill to Naseby. The Tower Mint, whose craftsmen struck this very coin, would fall into Parliamentary hands. And Charles – the composed, horseback figure on the obverse – would be tried for treason against his own people, walked out onto a scaffold in front of the Banqueting House in Whitehall, and executed on a cold January morning in 1649.
No one holding this coin in 1635 could have imagined it. And yet all the ingredients were already present – the overreach, the grievance, the simmering conviction that something had gone badly wrong between a king and his kingdom.
This coin was struck at the last moment of apparent calm. The storm was already forming.














