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1689 William & Mary Threepence

AethelredAethelred Posts: 9,288 ✭✭✭
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I bought this neat little 3d. this week, the scratches are adjustment marks:

1689 Threepence, LMV in GVLIELMVS over MVS, ESC-1987a
ESC lists this coin as "Scarce"

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  • spinaker2000spinaker2000 Posts: 4,329 ✭
    you didn't play with that color much did ya?? imageimage
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  • oldshepoldshep Posts: 3,240 ✭
    1689 - Wow that is history!!! Looks like William got his nose broken by Maryimage
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  • theboz11theboz11 Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭
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  • AethelredAethelred Posts: 9,288 ✭✭✭


    << <i>you didn't play with that color much did ya?? imageimage >>




    Not at all, why?
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  • AuldFartteAuldFartte Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭✭
    That's cool !!! I've never seen one of those "in person" yet.
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  • pythonpython Posts: 1,158
    Another nice 3d. I've taken a liking to these smaller coins myself.
  • cosmicdebriscosmicdebris Posts: 12,332 ✭✭✭
    Great coin!
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  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    Nice copper!

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  • MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,058 ✭✭✭
    Tain't no copper, wee Jester..... image

    Hey, that blue background has damaged my retina...... image

  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    I know i tain't no copper, Wise Rodent!! I also know that with his age, our dear Dead One is color blind! image

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    "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

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  • rhound1977rhound1977 Posts: 2,504
    William and Mary coins are neat, nice find Michael....... image
  • SylvestiusSylvestius Posts: 1,584 ✭
    Ha George Bower strikes back! Definately not a Roettier piece.
  • AethelredAethelred Posts: 9,288 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Ha George Bower strikes back! Definately not a Roettier piece. >>



    I believe they used the (assumed) Bower design until near the end of this reign.
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  • SylvestiusSylvestius Posts: 1,584 ✭
    Well it's either Bower or Harris.

    Most works seem to favour Bower. But one should be aware that Bower i believe died in 1689. So either he engraved a few dies in 1688/9 and they used them for the rest of the reign. Or if they did them each year then someone else did them.

    I haven't looked in the Coincraft to see whether the portrait changed or not but i think you are correct in saying it didn't, Maundy (or not as it was cirxculation coinage really) is not my area.

    Infact anything not sixpences ain't really my area.


    But i think it's safe to say that that is no way a piece of Roettier work. Certainly not James or Norbert.

    Although i do wonder if John Roettier may have had a go at these dodgy issues. He had of course crafted most coins from 1662-1688ish. By William and Mary's reign though he had developed a muscle disease which aflicted his hands making it very difficult for him to work, maybe in 1688/9 he was still able to do something of this level with a bit of difficulty.

    But in the years afterwards he was crippled.
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