Obv: (sexfoil)THE.PALSGRAV.HEAD.TAVERN , around beaded inner circle, bust of the Palsgrave Frederick.
Rev: (sexfoil)WITHOVT.TEMPLE.BARR , around beaded inner circle, HER HALFE PENNY with D(cinquefoil)/(cinquefoil)S below.
Note: The original initials were R over ID, ref. N 9012.
Ex R. H. Thompson.
M Dickinson 3065. Dies as Norweb 9013.

Issuer perhaps widow of I/J R , who had remarried.

The Palsgrave has been identified since Akerman 1847 as Frederick V (1596-1632), count palatine or Palsgrave, although in 1619 he became king of Bohemia and was so named on 17th century signs (Lillywhite 1972, nos. 9279-80); probably here his son Charles Lewis (1618-1680, elector palatine), who in England became a sort of Protestant mascot (ODNB); he was named in a 1642 Declaration and Petition of the Palsgrave and the Queene his mother, i.e. Elizabeth, queen of Bohemia. (Norweb Sylloge, N 9012).

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