Few specimens have survived of what is often regarded as one of the most beautiful medieval English coins ever produced.

Not as a friend, I should add; it's just that we both collect seventeenth-century English coins.

Three halfpence (English coin)

(It was already treason to counterfeit English coins, under the Treason Act 1351.)

It is not only the stone that has been found on the farm, but also a hoard of several hundred English coins.

As well as English coins, it also produced the coinage of Ireland.

Trevor Ashmore is a coin counterfeiter infamous for producing modern copies of ancient English coins in the 1960s.

The number of coins struck was small and English coins probably remained more significant in this period.

But more importantly, the coins bore no relationship in size to other English coins.

After Charlemagne's death, continental coinage degraded, and most of Europe resorted to using the continued high-quality English coin until about 1100.