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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 7539687, member: 101855&quot;]Since I collect one or a few coins from each king or queen, with an emphasis on finding a gold piece, shillings are hit and miss with me. I do have a few.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the oldest shillingI have, and Edward VI shilling. Edward VI was the son Henry VIII spent most of his adult life trying to have. He was well educated and admired for his intelligence but had a weak body. He died at age 15.</p><p><br /></p><p>This shilling is fairly common, but they don’t often come this nice. Despite the fact that I had spent the big bucks for an Edward VI gold piece, I couldn’t pass this coin up when I saw it.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1301497[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Charles II. I have always liked this design with Charles&#039; profile. With his little mustache, he looks like the ladies’ man that he was. He is credited with fathering 16 illegitimate children. The ironic part is that he didn’t have any children with the queen. As a result of that, the crown passed to his brother, James II when Charles II died. That ended in a bloodless coup, “The Glorious Revolution,” which removed James from the throne, but caused problems for England in later years.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1301498[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And here is poor Queen Anne on a shilling. She tried very hard to have an heir, but the closest she got was a 12 year old boy who died. She had numerous miscarriages. Queen Anne was very heavy. By the time she was in her late 30s, she was so heavy that she could barely walk. We now know that heavy women have a difficult time with pregnancy, but that was no known then.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the historian – guides I toured with in London claimed that part of Anne’s problem was with the substitute she found for tea … brandy.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1301500[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And here is George II on a shilling. George was very interested in military. He was the last British king to lead his troops into battle, the Battle of Dettingen in June 1743, which was during the War of Austrian Seccession.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was a Hanover tradition that the fathers viewed their sons as fools. George II was no exception. He thought that his son, Fredrick, was a fool from the day he was born. In his youth, Fredrick ran up a lot of debts, including gambling losses, which his father refused to honor. Nevertheless Fredrick was a cultured man who enjoyed sports, literature and the theater, which may have explained why his militaristic father viewed him as a fool.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fredrick died at age 54 before he became king, which met that the crown skipped a generation. George III was George II&#039;s grandson.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1301503[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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