This note continues the die studies of James I shillings, working backwards through the mintmarks of the second issue. Here the mintmark Coronet is presented. On 17th May 1609 there was £67 2s 5½d of silver at the trial of the pyx, representing coins struck in the 16 months since the previous trial on 11th November 1607.
This mintmark has the first appearance of the 5th Bust. Working through the previous die studies, six distinct varieties of the 5th bust have been identified, three of which can be found with mm coronet.
This study includes 92 specimens struck from 68 obverse and 79 reverse dies, with just 6 die pair duplicates. The sample statistics are poor but suggest that this issue of shillings had 198 obverse and 477 reverse dies.
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