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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 A Description of an unpublished Gold Coin of King Charles I. in a Letter addressed to the Rev.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.
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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