E is for Eboracum … and V is Victorious
The catalogue for the Dix Noonan Webb sale of March 21 makes known a recent discovery before it gets into the learned journals. It is an incidental use of sale catalogues that these things can be given prompt announcement. This is the nice example of a Charles I half-crown struck at York.
On the reverse they have a very very small B always assumed to be for Nicholas Briot the die engrave…