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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jimski, post: 2956180, member: 77373&quot;]Yes, the 1/6 thaler demonstrates that George II ruled Hanover as well as Great Britain.&nbsp; That is what makes it so interesting to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>On Wikipedia, I found: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Brunswick-L%C3%BCneburg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Brunswick-L%C3%BCneburg" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Brunswick-Lüneburg</a>&nbsp; <i>Great Britain and Hanover remained united in personal union until the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837. </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>(The personal union began with the ascension of George I to the British Throne, Jimski)</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_union" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_union" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_union</a>&nbsp; <i>A personal union is the combination of two or more states that have the same monarch while their boundaries, laws, and interests remain distinct</i></p><p><br /></p><p><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria</a> Since 1714, Britain had shared a monarch with Hanover in Germany, but under Salic law women were excluded from the Hanoverian succession. While Victoria inherited all the British dominions, Hanover passed instead to her father&#039;s younger brother, her unpopular uncle the Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale, who became King of Hanover. He was her heir presumptive until she married and had a child.</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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