Why do issues after the bypassing of Victoria under salic law still bear the British coat of arms on one side when Georg V (Cumberland jack) was born in Berlin anyway ? I find it rather strange that the kings of Great Britain who were also the duke of Brunswick-luneburg or later kings of Hannover didnt do this but someone with little to no association did :S For example... http://www.ngccoin.com/poplookup/WorldCoinPrices.aspx?category=119594&worldcoinid=305727
Although I don't have a definite answer, I do believe the politics of any given moment had alot to with the British royals wanting their German blood line to be emphasized or not. Like when they became the House Of Windsor.
Because that was the CoA of the Kingdom of Hannover maybe? Note the little white horse roughly in the center: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Hannover1837.jpg It stayed that way, I think, until Prussia annexed Hannover in the 1860s. Christian
Strange, the CoA for Hannover i thought was the shield in the centre, atleast it was maybe it was changed when it went from Brunswick- luneburg to the kingdom of Hannover because GIII was king then, sounds right enough ha !
My understanding is that a national emblem for Hanover was the horse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanoverian_horse There is a nice medal struck celebrating the arrival of George I in 1714 (the first of the Hanoverian rulers) that has a horse leaping from Hanover (Germany) to Great Britain. guy
The whole shield in the centre of the above posted emblem is the full shield the horse is just the lower part
For those that are reading this thread, I have posted a photo of one of my Brunswick-Luneburg Talers so they can see what the COA use to look like. I know those that are talking within the thread already know what the old COA looked like, but there may be some members that do not. The change of the COA of Hannover started under William IV I believe.
See I understand it there with the king being the British king at the same time but why for issues when it was the queens cousin ? Must have jst continued on.. :S beautiful coin by the way I long for the day I can afford to buy one for myself !
What is depicted on those royal arms usually has something to do with the territories where the king or queen "rules" ... and sometimes symbolizes where s/he could rule due to succession rules. For example, England and then the UK had the French lilies (fleurs-de-lis) until 1800, in the sense of "one never knows, I could be king of France one day". Similarly, the references to Hannover were removed from the British CoA in 1837 but the references to the UK stayed on the Hanoverian CoA for another 30 years or so ... Christian
Right, I get it now ! I knew the British coins had on pretending claims to the French throne, this makes sense actually..
