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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;davemac, post: 714517, member: 18327&quot;]emergency coinage known as gun money was struck with the the month as well as the year.</p><p>JamesII landed at kinsale on march 12th 1689 to recover his throne from williamIII.</p><p>To pay his franco-irish army james had an emergency coinage struck largely of scrap metal from old cannons&nbsp; old cannons being of brass the coinage was virtually worthless except as a metal promise to redeem -in gold or in silver at a later date</p><p>Eventually even the gun money metal became difficult to get or produce in a sufficient quantity so james had existing coins overstruck.thus sixpences became shillings. Shillings became halfcrowns.and halfcrowns were over-struck to become crowns.</p><p>Redemption however relied on james being successfull.</p><p>But when he reached the north things went from bad and the battle of the boyne nearly ended this.</p><p>The french never in decisive numbers went home.</p><p>William eventually defeated james&nbsp; and now took a terrible revenge on james his soldiers and anybody who had honoured the gun money</p><p>He proclaimed the coins to be legar tender but with new values</p><p>Large half crowns revalued at one penny </p><p>Small half crowns etc =three farthings</p><p>Shillings and sixpences=one farthing</p><p>The coin i have here is a large shilling aug 1689</p><p>Just wanted to share this lilte bit of history with you</p><p>Dave[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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