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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jgenn, post: 26390918, member: 78525&quot;]I have a &quot;Lima&quot; crown in my collection and did some research a decade ago and found an article at The British Museum that seemed to set the record straight but subsequently the redesign of the original web page no longer includes this info.&nbsp; Here&#039;s what Google Arts&amp;Culture captured from their scraping of the <a href="https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/silver-lima-crown-5-shillings-of-george-ii/7QGrGXHKgUTv7g?hl=en" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/silver-lima-crown-5-shillings-of-george-ii/7QGrGXHKgUTv7g?hl=en" rel="nofollow">previous webpage</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;During the War of the <a href="https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/m0h7x" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/m0h7x" rel="nofollow">Austrian</a> Succession, <a href="https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/m07ssc" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/m07ssc" rel="nofollow">Great Britain</a> was the ally of Maria Theresa of Austria, and fought its two greatest maritime rivals, <a href="https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/m0f8l9c" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/m0f8l9c" rel="nofollow">France</a> and <a href="https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/m06mkj" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/m06mkj" rel="nofollow">Spain</a>. In July 1745, Captains James Talbot and John Morecock, commanding two privateers in the North Atlantic, the Prince Frederick and the Duke, captured two French treasure ships returning from <a href="https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/m01r2dw" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/m01r2dw" rel="nofollow">Callao</a>, the port of <a href="https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/m0lpfh" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/m0lpfh" rel="nofollow">Lima</a>. Their haul was £800,000 in silver <a href="https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/m0242l" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/m0242l" rel="nofollow">coins</a> and ingots, plus gold and other goods. When they landed at <a href="https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/m095l0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/m095l0" rel="nofollow">Bristol</a> in October it took 45 wagons to transport the coin and bullion (which weighed over 78 tons) to the Tower Mint. There the silver was used in the production of the so-called &#039;Lima&#039; coinage of 1746. It was requested that the word &#039;Lima&#039; be used on the coins to celebrate the exploit. Here LIMA can be seen spelled out under the portrait of King <a href="https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/g121_ztqt" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/g121_ztqt" rel="nofollow">George II</a> (reigned 1727-60)&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Anson returned in 1744, two years before the &quot;Lima&quot; coinage -- you can see that there&#039;s no mention of &quot;Lima&quot; coinage in this <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Anson%27s_voyage_around_the_world" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Anson%27s_voyage_around_the_world" rel="nofollow">wikipedia article</a> about his voyage.</p><p><br /></p><p>What is the truth?&nbsp; Who knows but my cynical self suggests that some coin cataloger started the Anson story and the laziest of subsequent coin catalogers continue to propagate this version of history.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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