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CCE Signature Sale 3064 Online Sess 23 Apr 2018
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Four-Piece Denomination Set of Certified James II Gun Money, includes 6 Pence dated July 1689 AU53 PCGS, S-6583B, KM93; Shilling dated August 1689 XF45 PCGS, S-6581C, KM94; 1/2 Crown dated April 1690 VF35 PCGS, S-6579N, KM95; and Crown dated 1690 XF40 PCGS, S-6578, KM103.1. A lovely collection of this historically fascinating coinage produced by the exiled James II to pay his Irish troops during the Glorious Revolution. Made from melted-down church bells, cannon balls, or the very cannons themselves, each piece of gun money was inscribed with the month of issue with the intent (never fulfilled) to ease the payment of royalist troops in good silver once they had won the war. The crown in particular evinces James's rapid exhaustion of the available medal supply, with clear signs of overstriking on an earlier large-size 1/2 Crown. Fueled by the overflow of anti-Catholic sentiment with so deeply colored the Glorious Revolution, the young North American colonies experienced their own flares of revolution, with the Catholic government of Maryland being overthrown.
From the Jamestown Collection
HID02901242017
Estimate: 400-600 USD
Four-Piece Denomination Set of Certified James II Gun Money, includes 6 Pence dated July 1689 AU53 PCGS, S-6583B, KM93; Shilling dated August 1689 XF45 PCGS, S-6581C, KM94; 1/2 Crown dated April 1690 VF35 PCGS, S-6579N, KM95; and Crown dated 1690 XF40 PCGS, S-6578, KM103.1. A lovely collection of this historically fascinating coinage produced by the exiled James II to pay his Irish troops during the Glorious Revolution. Made from melted-down church bells, cannon balls, or the very cannons themselves, each piece of gun money was inscribed with the month of issue with the intent (never fulfilled) to ease the payment of royalist troops in good silver once they had won the war. The crown in particular evinces James's rapid exhaustion of the available medal supply, with clear signs of overstriking on an earlier large-size 1/2 Crown. Fueled by the overflow of anti-Catholic sentiment with so deeply colored the Glorious Revolution, the young North American colonies experienced their own flares of revolution, with the Catholic government of Maryland being overthrown.
From the Jamestown Collection
HID02901242017
Estimate: 400-600 USD