Tin coinage

A depiction of tin ingots from a 1699 map of Cornwall
Tin ingot moulds outside a Cornish mine

In Devon and Cornwall, tin coinage was a tax on refined tin, payable to the Duchy of Cornwall and administered in the Stannary Towns. The oldest surviving records of coinage show that it was collected in 1156. It was abolished by the Tin Duties Act 1838.