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| Image title: | Shilling, William III |
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| Source: | Aubrey, William Hickman Smith: “The National and Domestic History of England (Vol 3)” (1878) |
| Place shown: | none |
| Keywords: | coins, greyscale |
| Status: | out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free stock image for all purposes usage credit requested Please do not redistribute without permission, since running this site is expensive. |
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This wood-engraving shows the two sides of a shilling from 1699, in the reign of King William III of England. The coin has the King’s portait in profile on one side and shields on the other for Ierland, England, Scotland and Wales. “It was resolved that the money of the kingdom should be recoined according to the old standard both of weight and of fineness; that all new pieces should be milled [that is, have a texture around the circumference to that you can tell if a coin has been clipped or shaved]; that the loss on the new pieces should be borne by the public; that a time should be fixed after which no clipped money should pass, except in payments to the government; and that a later time should be fixed, after which no clipped money should pass at all. The loss was to be met by the imposition of a tax on windows, which continued to be levied long after the immediate occasion had passed away. (p. 401) The coin shown here was one of the new ones at the Restoration of the Coinage. You still see older houses in England with windows that were bricked up in the eighteenth century to save paying the tax, and also newer buildings, well into the nineteenth century, with bricked-up windows as an affectation, because of the window tax. |
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| Dimensions: | 26 x 56mm (1.0 x 2.2 inches) |
| Filename: | vol3-400-Shilling-William-III-q75-500x246.jpg |
| Blog image: | http://fromoldbooks.org/r/D/vol3-400-Shilling-William-III-q75-500x246.jpg |
| Blog link: | http://fromoldbooks.org/r/D/pages/vol3-400-Shilling-William-III/ |
| Scanner dpi: | 2400 |
| Unmarked: | You can get a version of this image without the watermark at the lower right corner by requesting it here; The images are watermarked to help people find where they came from if they get reposted to blogs or other sites. Images under 1200 pixels on a side are still free, although I will ask for a donation :-) |
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