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IV. A Description of an unpublished Gold Coin of King Charles I. in a Letter addressed to the Rev. John Brand, one of the Secretaries to the Society of Antiquaries.By the Rev. Mark Noble, F. A. S.
Read Nov. 10, 1796.
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Reverend Sir,
PERMIT me through your hands to lay before the Society of Antiquaries a drawing of a gold coin of king Charles I. with some account of it, because I flatter myself it is a very curious and select piece of money, and which, I believe, no writer has ever noticed.
The coin exhibits his majesty's profile crowned with a laced band. The inscription upon the obverse is, carolvs d. g. ma. br. fr. et hi. rex. and behind the head iii.
Upon the reverse is a shield of the royal arms; in the first and
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