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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bart9349, post: 3122457, member: 5682&quot;]Not wanting to hijack this thread ... but the modern rendition of the Britannia of British coinage was modeled by the young and beautiful court-favorite Frances Stuart, the infatuation of King Charles II (The Merry Monarch).</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]794775[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]794776[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.britannia.com/history/articles/francesstuart.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.britannia.com/history/articles/francesstuart.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.britannia.com/history/articles/francesstuart.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Francis Stuart appeared to have escaped intact from the lecherous and besotted Charles II by eloping with another man. &quot;La Belle Stuart,&quot; nevertheless, was used as the model for Britannia for three centuries. Ms. Stuart appeared on copper coinage until its decimalization in 1971.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]794784[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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