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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 8152533, member: 66&quot;]That George V was not the King&nbsp; George V of England though.</p><p><br /></p><p>The To Hanover tokens related to the splitting of the line of the kings of Great Britian from the King of Hanover.&nbsp; When Queen Anne died without an heir they had to reach out for a more distant relative to take the throne.&nbsp; The closest relative was the King of Hanover in Germany.&nbsp; He came to England and became King George I.&nbsp; George II, III, IV, and William IV were known as the Hanoverian Kings and were the king of both countries.&nbsp; When William IV died there was a problem.&nbsp; Victoria became Queen of England, but under Hanoverian law the throne could not be inherited by a woman.&nbsp; So the Throne of Hanover went to her uncle Ernest Augustus Duke of Cumberland.&nbsp; The English people took the snubbing of Victoria as a slight and the figure on the reverse is the Duke being set off To Hannover.&nbsp; So the token is basically saying &quot;Victoria is the Queen, and you can go to Hanover.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>A bit of trivia.&nbsp; George I never bothered to learn English so the language of the royal court under George I, and II was German, and George III was possibly more comfortable with German than English as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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