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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PaddyB, post: 4223491, member: 40017&quot;]Or how about a Sixpence from Philip and Mary dated 1554:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1081036[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1081037[/ATTACH] </p><p>Only two short periods when you get two monarchs on GB coins - this Philip and Mary and then William and Mary in the late 17th century.</p><p>Philip was king of Spain and when he married Mary he insisted that as a king in his own right he had the right to be on the coins. This was unpopular with the British people and when Mary died the coinage disappeared very quickly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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