Jflates on ttje Coins; beliebet) 



to i)abe been struck at ^anfcafoot Castle 



ani OTepntoutt) in 1643*44. 



By HENRY SYMONDS, F.S.A. 



(Bead 19th Feb., 1918.) 



substance of this paper was communicated by 

 the present writer to the Royal Numis- 

 matic Society in 1913 (Num. Chron., 

 4 Ser. XIII, 119). It is now reproduced 

 and amplified with the assent of that 

 Society as a contribution to the history of 

 <->ne phase of the Civil War in Dorset. 



It may be said at the outset that none 

 of these " moneys of necessity," whether 

 struck at Sandsfoot or elsewhere in England, are known 

 to have been issued by the Parliamentary authorities, but 

 solely by the Royalists, for the sufficient reason that the 

 Commons in August, 1642, had seized and were in full control 

 of the royal mint in the Tower of London, which was able to 

 supply all the currency demands of its new masters. Never- 

 theless, the King's opponents continued to use his portrait 

 and titles until 1649, the year of his execution ; and we there- 

 fore find two distinct classes of current moneys of equal 

 intrinsic value, one issued by Parliament from the Tower, 

 the other by Charles I. from various places throughout the 



