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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sylvester, post: 56005, member: 708&quot;]Actually i should really correct you both;</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Victoria, by the grace of God, Queen of the British [possessions], Defender of the Faith and Empress of India&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>If i remember correctly coins originally were VICTORIA D.G BRITANNIAR REG F.D the &#039;Brit&#039; only having one &#039;T&#039; which was taken to mean Queen of the British. However with the expansion of Empire it was changed to Queen of the British possessions and thus to mark this change an extra &#039;T&#039; was added onto the shortened form to make BRITT.</p><p><br /></p><p>As you will note there is only one T in BRITANNIAR. So i guess the other T must come from the first letter of the latin word for land, or in this case the British lands[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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