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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bart9349, post: 2332717, member: 5682&quot;]What a great thread and coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I especially like the historically significant medal with its Jacobite propaganda from 4to2centBC .</p><p><br /></p><p>Quick refresher: Jacobites were those who wanted the return of King James II and his son James III, as well as their later heirs, to the throne. The crown had been usurped by James II&#039;s daughters, first Mary (with her Dutch husband William) and later Anne. After neither Mary and William nor Anne produced any surviving heirs, Parliament looked to the Hanoverians in Germany for an acceptable sovereign. The Hanoverians, starting with George I, ascended the throne with Queen Anne’s death in 1714.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/british-the-queen-has-died.249659/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/british-the-queen-has-died.249659/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/british-the-queen-has-died.249659/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The Hanoverians had bypassed dozens of others who were closer in the hereditary order to the throne. These other claimants were passed over because they were not Protestant.</p><p><br /></p><p>This medal was issued as a result of the financial crisis and chaos precipitated by the South Sea Bubble during George I’s reign. The South Sea Bubble was a stock fraud that resulted in the loss of many fortunes and the ruin of many reputations. Before the financial hoax was exposed and the stock market collapsed, however, George I, his mistress, and several prominent members of his cabinet had benefited, frequently from unethical insider dealings of the South Sea stock.</p><p><br /></p><p>As he mentioned, the obverse of the coin is of James III (later known as the Old Pretender). The inscription VNICA SALVS means “the only safeguard.” This suggests that only the return of the “rightful” heirs could protect Britain from the plundering and greed of the Hanoverians.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse of the coin is fascinating. A Hanoverian horse (representing George I and his court from Hanover) tramples over a lion (England) and a unicorn (Scotland). To the left Britannia weeps while the now impoverished citizens flee London across London Bridge and out of the city with their few remaining and meager belongings.</p><p><br /></p><p>The legend QVID CRAVIVS CAPTA on the reverse means (I think) “what is more calamitous than a captured city.”</p><p><br /></p><p>This medal is a powerful indictment of the moral decay supposedly caused by the foreign Hanoverian &quot;usurpers&quot; with their corrupt minsters.</p><p><br /></p><p>Great coin and great history. Thank you for this coin. And thank you everyone for the entire thread.</p><p><br /></p><p>guy[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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