[1] It should be observed that the P is the Saxon W.

[2] The first date that appears on any English silver coins.

[3] The first instance of a date upon an English gold coin.

[4] One variety, the “Pudsey” Shilling and Sixpence, said to have been used in the wars in Ireland, has an escallop shell filling the inner circle.

[5] “A Guide to the Coins of the Ancients, from cir. B.C. 700 to A.D. 1,” with seventy plates, by B. V. Head, second edition, London, 8vo, 1881, TrÜbners.