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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bart9349, post: 24601643, member: 5682&quot;]What a nice coin and wonderful thread. I almost missed this. In years past, there was little interest at this site about the coinage of the late Stuarts / early Hanoverians (my primary historical interest).</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I think George I has been greatly underestimated. Remember, he was over 40 years of age before he was even considered in line to be King of England (which passed over more than fifty others with better hereditary claims). He didn&#039;t arrive in Britain to rule until he was over fifty.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think his inability to speak English has been exaggerated. He was not fluent, but he probably was highly functional in English. Speaking French and Latin, nevertheless, would have allowed him to converse with most of the educated elites throughout Europe.</p><p><br /></p><p>He came to Britain in his fifties to a distant and dreary kingdom as the first Hanoverian to rule over a rebellious people, many of whom (the Jacobites) were actively plotting to reinstate the usurped Stuarts.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is one of my visitors from the era. This is a medal that commemorates the Indemnity Act of 1717, which pardoned hundreds of Jacobites who rose in rebellion in 1715 against George I and the Hanoverian Succession. :</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1562966[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1562967[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indemnity_Act_1717" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indemnity_Act_1717" rel="nofollow">Indemnity Act 1717 - Wikipedia</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for posting. Good stuff.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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