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- Although early charters by Richard I and John confirmed to the Archbishop of Canterbury the grant of three moneyers with their dies, and the fact that this grant continued into the reign of Edward I, no class 6 or 7 coins are known from Canterbury.
- Robert Kilwardby was appointed Archbishop in 1272 and consecrated in 1273. Kilwardby crowned Edward I and his wife Eleanor as king and queen of England in August 1274, but otherwise took little part in politics.
- Kilwardby resigned Canterbury and left England, with his term in Canterbury ending in June 1278. This timing was after class 7 production would have commenced in London.
- The next Archbishop, John Peckham, was not appointed until January 1279, but all coin production had ceased in November 1278, with the recoinage of Edward I beginning with the new style coins first being struck from May 1279.
- However, as there was an Archbishop in place with minting rights from 1272 – June 1278, it is not impossible that some class 7 pennies were produced, but that specimens have not survived.
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Robert Kilwardby
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