David Lisot Video Library (2001)
Multi-Media Summary
Heads and tails we know - but the tales told by the legends on coins are often ignored. Yet they can tell us much about life, politics and dreams of the times. Here are insights into 13th - 17th century England. A lively discussion of Biblical quotations, religious invocations, and bodacious bragging on coins and what these legends meant to propagate among the populous and wealthy who handled them.
- How to tell which town or city stuck the coin
- Bright color slides of hammered coins from the reigns of:
- Edward I (1272 - 1307), Edward III (1327-1377), Henry VII (1485-1509)
- Henry VIII (1509 - 1547), Edward VI (1547 - 1553), Mary (1553-1554)
- Phillip & Mary (1554 - 1558), Elizabeth I (1558 - 1603), James VI (1567-1625)
- James I (1603 - 1625), Charles I (1625 - 1649)
- The English Commonwealth (1649 - 1660)
- Reduction of purity during Henry VIII's reign
- The infusion of Silver into England in 1551
- The end of Hammered series coins Speaker(s): Arthur M. Fitts, III.
