- Nov 11, 2022
“English Silver Coinage of the Tudors” by Desmond Rainey (NSI-NB)
This article takes the reader on a numismatic journey from the Battle of Bosworth Field of 1485 to the final days of the last Tudor's monarchs - Queen Elizabeth I, who was succeeded in 1603 by her cousin King James VI of Scotland. The transition from the medieval world with its stylised portraiture into a more modern world characterised by realism in its portrayal of the monarch on the coinage is revisited in detail and illustrated with the finest examples of silver coins. Th
