Royal warrant prescribing design of milled coin

Author: Unknown

Source: MINT 19/3/279, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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Charles R

Our Will & pleasure is & Wee doe hereby req^r. & Authorize You as soon as the s^d. Buildings, Tooles, & Engines shall bee sett up & fitted for O^r. service to Cause to be made by Way of the Mill & Presse the severall & respective Silver Coynes hereafter menconed (that is to say) one peeice of Five shililngs one peeice of two shillings & sixpence & one shilling w^th. our Portraiture & these Words Carolus 2^dus. Dei Gra: on y^e one side And the Armes of our Kingdom in Four severall Escutcheons Crowned w^th. their Points turned inwards, A Double Letter Cor Cypher of our Name this X between y^e s^d. Escutcheons & the starr & ord^r. of our Garter in y^e Middle und^r. y^e. Points of them & these Words Mag: Brit: Fra: et Hib: Rex And y^e Year of our Lord on y^e other side of each of y^e s^d. severall peeices, one peeice of six pence, one peeice of Four Pence, &|\one/| Three Pence, one Two pence and one Penny in silver w^th. our Portraiture & y^e same Inscripcons as upon y^e Greater Coynes on y^e one side & the s^d. Double Lett^r. or Cypher of our Name, w^th. y^e severall Badges of our Kingdomes and Inscripcons on y^e other wise of each of y^e respective peeices of our smaller Monyes according to y^e Draughts lately made for our new silver Monyes by Iohn Roettiers one of our Chiefe Gravers p^r.sented unto us by You & approved on by Vs, Our further Will & pleasure is, And Wee doe hereby Command |&| Authorise {illeg}|You to Ca|use to be put upon y^e Edges or thicknesse of our peeices of Five shillings, And of two shillings and six pence in silver these Words following (that is to say) Decus et Tutamen and upon y^e Ring or Edges of our shillings & six pences in Silver w^ch. are too thinn to recieve {sic} Letters you are to Cause as in all straight or Crosse Grayning only to be put as you shall Iudge it most secure for our said Coynes,

By his Ma^ties. Comand

Whitehall 5^th. Febry
1662 by his

Hen: Bennett