Great Britain, Charles II, Crown 1662, Rose, aVF

Charles II (1660-85)

Great Britain, Charles II, Crown 1662, Rose, aVF

Name: Great Britain, Charles II, Crown 1662, Rose, aVF
SKU: A461
Price: 269 EUR
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Obverse: First laureate and draped bust of King Charles II right, legend around, rose below.

Lettering (Latin): CAROLVS II·DEI·GRA

Translation: Charles II by the Grace of God

Engraver: John Roettier

Reverse: Crowned cruciform shields around central Garter star with interlinked C’s in angles, divided date above, legend around.

Lettering (Latin): MAG· BR·FRA· ET·HIB· REX·16 62·

Translation: King of Great Britain, France and Ireland

Engraver: John Roettier

Edge (text in Latin): Regnal year in Latin

The pictures provided are of the actual coin for sale.

Guaranteed genuine.

€ 269

In stock

Country	Great Britain
Ruler	Charles II (1660-85)
Face Value	Crown
Year of issue	1662
Metal	Silver
Fineness	925
Catalogue #	KM# 417.2; SPINK 3350; ESC 340
Weight, g.	28,45
Diameter, mm.	40,11
Our code	A461
Die Axis	↑↓
Additional info	-

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History

In 1660, England exhaled.

After eleven years of Civil War, regicide, and the grey austerity of Oliver Cromwell’s Commonwealth – theatres shuttered, Christmas banned, pleasure itself regarded with official suspicion – the monarchy was restored. Charles II rode into London on his thirtieth birthday to crowds that wept with relief. The Merry Monarch, they would call him: witty, pleasure-loving, politically nimble, and possessed of a survival instinct forged through years of exile, humiliation, and near-capture after the Battle of Worcester. He had slept in an oak tree to evade Roundhead soldiers. He had wandered Europe as a penniless, stateless prince for nearly a decade. Now he was king, and England wanted very badly to feel like itself again.

The Crown of 1662 is not merely a coin from this period – it is one of the most significant objects the English Mint ever produced. It was the first denomination struck using the revolutionary new milling machinery introduced by the French engineer Peter Blondeau, replacing the centuries-old method of hand-hammering coins one by one. The difference was profound. The new machine-struck coins were perfectly round, uniform in weight, and engraved with a precision that hand-striking could never achieve. Most importantly, their milled edges – and the raised Latin inscription DECVS ET TVTAMEN, meaning “an ornament and a safeguard” – made clipping and counterfeiting dramatically harder. It was, in every sense, the birth of the modern English coin.

The portrait on the obverse was the work of John Roettier, a Flemish engraver who had befriended Charles during his years of exile and been promised a position at the Mint upon the Restoration. The laureate bust he produced was elegant and authoritative – a king who looked, for the first time in over a decade, like a king. The silver that fed the Mint that year had an unusual origin: Charles had sold the town of Dunkirk back to France for five million French livres, and the resulting flood of silver écus – transported to the Tower in 300 chests – was converted directly into the first milled crowns.

Even the coin’s edge carries a quiet drama. The regnal year inscribed there counts not from the Restoration of 1660, but from the execution of Charles I in 1649 – as if the Commonwealth had never happened, as if the crown had simply passed in the normal way, father to son, without the scaffold and the bloodshed in between.

It was, perhaps, the most eloquent fiction in the history of English coinage.