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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ian, post: 16387, member: 283&quot;]I bet you are only well covered for `English&#039; coins though (?).</p><p><br /></p><p>Lets be honest here. All coins made in Britain are (de facto) British.</p><p><br /></p><p>So when is a coin from Britain NOT a British coin? When it is English?</p><p>or when it is Scottish?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Some might say that James VI of Scotland / James I of England was the start of truly `British&#039; coins but they still made Scottish / English variants for silver coinage, so emphasising the difference. Still Scottish and still English in other words, but still both `British&#039;.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>A universal coinage in the UK did not appear until Queen Anne and the Union of the Crowns. That is when `UK&#039; coinage really came into existence.</p><p><br /></p><p>I must say I much prefer my 1500&#039;s British coinage to be Scottish (like this example)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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