Watch List notes:

GREAT BRITAIN. Pontefract (Besieged). Shilling, "1648" (struck 1649). Charles II (as King in pretense). NGC F-15.
S-3151; KM-383.2; N-2649. Weight: 4.86 gms. Octagonal shaped. Although rather well worn as the grade level would indicate, this example is perfectly centered on a fairly broad flan.

The reverse depicts an image of Pontefract Castle and commemorates the siege endured by the royalists at this fortress in October 1648. Having held off Oliver Cromwell's troops, they issued this type in the name of Charles II, after the execution in London of his father on January 30, 1649. The legend reads "POST MORTEM PATRIS PRO FILIO," or "after the death of the father, [we are] for the son."

Estimate: $2000 - $3000