SOME NOTES ON THE COINAGE OF ELIZABETH I WITH
SPECIAL REFERENCE TO HER HAMMERED SILVER
By I .
D .
B R O W N
I N T R O D U C T I O N
W H E N considering the transformation which occurred in the English
coinage between the end of the Middle Ages and the...
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SOME NOTES ON THE COINAGE OF ELIZABETH I WITH
SPECIAL REFERENCE TO HER HAMMERED SILVER
By I .
D .
B R O W N
I N T R O D U C T I O N
W H E N considering the transformation which occurred in the English
coinage between the end of the Middle Ages and the late seventeenth
century, it is surprising to find a period of forty-three years during
which the coins are chiefly remarkable for the uniformity shown during the reign of Elizabeth I.
It is this uniformity which has led to the
absence of practically any detailed study of the coins of this reign.
Yet, in spite of the uniformity shown by the coins themselves, there
can be traced during the reign the beginnings of those changes that
were to make the numismatics of the following century so eventful.
The economy of the country was in a period of slow but steady change.
After the recoinage of the silver early in the reign, which did so much
to stabilize the English economy, there was the steady influx of
precious metals from America.
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