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ERMIT 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, and behind the head.

Upon the reverse is a shield of the royal arms; in the first and Rh