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<p>[QUOTE="Jimski, post: 2993161, member: 77373"]<b>1698 British halfcrown, S-3494, DECIMO</b> on the raised edge inscription indicated the tenth year of reign</p><p><br /></p><p>There are also 1698 halfcrowns with edge inscriptions ANNO REGNI OCTAVO – eight year of reign, ANNO REGNI UNDECIMO - eleventh year of reign. The DECIMO type is most common. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]738930[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]738932[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Before William and Mary’s accession (in 1689) to the throne of England, Scotland and Ireland</b></p><p>From <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/civil_war_revolution/william_iii_01.shtml" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/civil_war_revolution/william_iii_01.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/civil_war_revolution/william_iii_01.shtml</a></p><p><br /></p><p><i>William was born in the Hague in 1650. Although his mother Mary was English (a daughter of King Charles I), his father William (who died of smallpox days before his son's birth) was an Orange-Nassau, a member of the most powerful family in the United Provinces of the Netherlands.<b>…</b></i></p><p><br /></p><p><i>William's first two decades were spent trying to regain the Orange position in Dutch politics. Although the Orange family had led Holland's war of independence against Spain in the 16th century, and had usually been elected to the executive stadhouderships (provincial leaderships) of most of Holland's regional provinces, they had never become hereditary sovereigns of that country, and there were powerful forces opposed to them in the republic.</i></p><p><br /></p><p><i>Until 1672, the opposition kept William from office. In that year, however, King Louis XIV of France invaded the Netherlands, and occupied nearly all the country. In the crisis, the Dutch turned back to the Orange family. William was appointed both to the stadhouderships and to the command of the federal army.</i></p><p><br /></p><p><i>The events of 1672 determined the rest of William's career. He had come to power to save the Dutch from France, and Europe from the dangerously expansionist Louis - and he became obsessed with these goals. Thus, in the years after the French invasion, William organised his countrymen's resistance.</i></p><p><br /></p><p><i>He allied with Spain and Austria - and drove Louis from Dutch soil. Vitally, he also explored the idea of the Stuart realms coming to his aid. He urged his uncles - the kings Charles II and James II (from 1685) - to help him stand against France. Then in 1677 he married James's eldest daughter, Mary, in the hope of cementing an Anglo-Dutch alliance.</i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The center arms on the reverse are the personal arms of William III, the arms of the House of Orange-Nassau.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Jimski, post: 2993161, member: 77373"][B]1698 British halfcrown, S-3494, DECIMO[/B] on the raised edge inscription indicated the tenth year of reign There are also 1698 halfcrowns with edge inscriptions ANNO REGNI OCTAVO – eight year of reign, ANNO REGNI UNDECIMO - eleventh year of reign. The DECIMO type is most common. [ATTACH=full]738930[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]738932[/ATTACH] [B]Before William and Mary’s accession (in 1689) to the throne of England, Scotland and Ireland[/B] From [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/civil_war_revolution/william_iii_01.shtml[/url] [I]William was born in the Hague in 1650. Although his mother Mary was English (a daughter of King Charles I), his father William (who died of smallpox days before his son's birth) was an Orange-Nassau, a member of the most powerful family in the United Provinces of the Netherlands.[B]…[/B][/I] [I]William's first two decades were spent trying to regain the Orange position in Dutch politics. Although the Orange family had led Holland's war of independence against Spain in the 16th century, and had usually been elected to the executive stadhouderships (provincial leaderships) of most of Holland's regional provinces, they had never become hereditary sovereigns of that country, and there were powerful forces opposed to them in the republic.[/I] [I]Until 1672, the opposition kept William from office. In that year, however, King Louis XIV of France invaded the Netherlands, and occupied nearly all the country. In the crisis, the Dutch turned back to the Orange family. William was appointed both to the stadhouderships and to the command of the federal army.[/I] [I]The events of 1672 determined the rest of William's career. He had come to power to save the Dutch from France, and Europe from the dangerously expansionist Louis - and he became obsessed with these goals. Thus, in the years after the French invasion, William organised his countrymen's resistance.[/I] [I]He allied with Spain and Austria - and drove Louis from Dutch soil. Vitally, he also explored the idea of the Stuart realms coming to his aid. He urged his uncles - the kings Charles II and James II (from 1685) - to help him stand against France. Then in 1677 he married James's eldest daughter, Mary, in the hope of cementing an Anglo-Dutch alliance.[/I] The center arms on the reverse are the personal arms of William III, the arms of the House of Orange-Nassau.[/QUOTE]
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