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| 背面描述 | Four crowned cruciform shields bearing the arms of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, arranged symmetrically around a central escutcheon displaying the Nassau lion rampant. The divided date appears above the central shield, with the early-style harp visible on the Irish shield. A crown surmounts each shield at the angles of the cross, and the full circumferential legend in Latin reads around the border. The design represents the large-shields, early-harp variety characteristic of the 1696 first-issue coinage. |
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| 铸币厂 | Tower Mint, London |
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William III's half crowns of 1696 were struck under emergency conditions. The Great Recoinage of that year — driven by a catastrophic clipping crisis that had left perhaps half of England's circulating silver coinage underweight — required the mint to operate far beyond normal capacity, with temporary branch mints opened at Bristol, Chester, Exeter, Norwich, and York. The London issue, identifiable by the absence of a mint mark, was the anchor of this operation.
The 1st bust with large shields and early harp is an early die marriage, superseded within the same year as engravers refined the harp proportions on the Irish shield.