DENOMINATIONS.--_Silver._ Crown, Half-crown, Shilling, Nine-pence, and
Sixpence. _Gold._ Fifty-shilling-piece, Broad or Twenty-shilling-piece,
Half-broad or Ten-shilling-piece. _Copper._ Farthings.
OBVERSE. _Type._ Sinister bust profile of the Protector, draped, loose
drapery, head laureated, hair long.
_Legend._ OLIVAR. D.G. RP. ANG. SCO. ET HIB. and PRO. or otherwise
abbreviated.
REVERSE.--_Type._ Shield surmounted by an open arched crown, bearing
quarterly, 1 and 4, cross of St. George; 2, cross of St. Andrew; 3,
Irish harp, upon an escutcheon of pretence, the arms of Cromwell, a
lion rampant.
_Legend._ PAX QVÆRITVR BELLO. and date.
_Edge._ HAS NISI PERITVRVS MIHI ADIMAT NEMO.
_Gold._ Same type and legend as silver. On the edge of the
fifty-shilling-piece, PROTECTOR LITERIS LITERÆ NVMMIS CORONA ET SALVS.
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_Copper._ Farthing. Obverse, head as before, OLIVAR PRO ENG SC IRL.
Reverse, shield as before, and legend CHARITIE AND CHANGE; another,
three columns tied together, having on top of the first a cross, the
second a harp, and the third a thistle, and the legend THVS VNITED
INVINCIBLE; another, a ship under sail, and legend, AND GOD DIRECT OVR
COVRS; another, CONVENIENT CHANGE.