Unique ID: 18
The Clacton Dragon stands at the head of an interesting sequence where the reverse undergoes a radical redesign midway through obverse die one. It starts with the reverse shown in ABC, then this one, and then three different “dragon” dies which are all only known from a single coin each (see 27 for one of them). The reverse is then completely redesigned to ABC 2356 “Clacton Cross” (see 20 and 94) but the same obverse remains in use until it wears flat and is then replaced. The Clacton Cross type continues for six obverse dies and fourteen reverse dies.
It’s not known why the reverse switched from a “dragon” to a cross, nor why the Clacton Dragon coins are so rare but the Clacton Cross coins are much more common.
This is one of two in the collection (see 27).