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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PaddyB, post: 1637333, member: 40017&quot;]I would love to spend more time telling everyone much more about these coins, and I hope to add to this thread with just this info as I can. Unfortunately I am actually supposed to be working today, and my conscience wont allow me to spend too long away from it!</p><p><br /></p><p>Time for one I think - the William &amp; Mary Halfcrown, which has always been one of my favourite designs.The XXX design that Doug asked about is actually W and M overlaid and was the cypher used by the joint monarchs in many places. (When I was young there was a wall in the village with this cypher picked out continuously in black bricks to record the period of its construction.) This is also the only coin I know of where the date appeared in the 3 quadrants on the reverse. I think it proved confusing to everyone - even the die makers constantly got digits upside down, and the example shown has a blundered 3 as a result. They only kept this design for a few years, and when Mary died, the new coinage reverted to more traditional date locations.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also there have only been two periods in British history when we have had two monarchs on the coinage - this William and Mary period, and the much less well known Philip and Mary period 1554 to 1558. Mary was Queen of England as eldest daughter of Henry VIII, and Philip was King of Spain, and as such exercised his rights to be on the coinage. It was a very unhappy period, and neither monarch was popular, with the result that most of their coins were recycled soon after Elizabeth came to the throne.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will try to discuss the others another time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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