This note continues the die studies of James I shillings, working backwards through the mintmarks of the second issue. Here the mintmark Scallop is presented. On 30th June 1607 there was £75 0s 10d of silver at the trial of the pyx, representing coins struck since the previous trial on 10th July 1606, almost a year previously.
With just 46 specimens struck from 37 obverse and 40 reverse dies, and just 1 die pair duplicate this is already suggesting that the sample is very small and the statistics poor. The usual statistical analysis suggests we might expect 148 obverse and 195 reverse dies, though the poor coverage means that this estimate could be out by a factor of two either way!
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