Three rare tokens issued as money during the English Civil War in Nottinghamshire have fetched ... originally known as obsidional (Latin for besieged) coins, but often called 'siege coins'.

coin Money, regulate the Value thereof ... most of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries up until the Civil War comprised a hodgepodge of different types of money. Circulating money consisted ...

A rare coin minted by Royalists during the English Civil War is to be put up for auction. The lozenge-shaped coin is said to offer an insight into a pivotal moment of history, when the ...