The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

360 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.
for stops. But these have the closed Lombardic 6T. They
are transitional coins which help to connect coins bearing
the later cinquefoil mint mark with those which imme-
diately follow.
VIII. Groat with m.m. escallop. Mr. "Webb has a very
peculiar groat bearing this mint mark on the obverse, and
with the earlier, or heraldic cinquefoil, on the reverse.
The arches of the crown are more convex than usual. The
king's hair looks as if it had been brushed away from his
face, and stands almost straight out on each side. None
of the cusps of the tressure are fleured. The coin has the
peculiar
mentioned in Hawkins' Silver Coins ofEngland.
It was formerly in Mr. Neck's collection. The reappearance
of the heraldic cinquefoil after long disuse is not
easily to be accounted for. But coins with the escallop
mint mark are entirely different from all others of this
series, and baffle any attempt at tracing a gradual development
of type through them. On a large proportion of
them rosettes are used as stops.
IX. Groat with m.m. anchor
X. Groat with reverse m.m. rose. In the collection of
Dr. Frazer is a very rare coin with obverse mint mark
greyhound's head, and reverse mint mark rose. This coin
has a crown of double ornamented arches, and is thus con-
nected in type with the earlier variety of coins bearing
the greyhound's head mint mark. Small crosses occur in
the legend as stops. The cross dividing the reverse has
flat ends. Dr. Evans has fa similar coin, but with the
inner arches of the crown plain.
XI. Groat with m.m. greyhound's head. The earlier
coins bearing this mint mark have crowns with double
arches ;
the later coins have crowns with single arches.