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1 Crown - William III 3rd bust, 3rd harp
| Issuer | Royal Mint (Tower Hill, London) |
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| Year | 1700 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | MAG BR·FRA ET·HIB REX·17 00· (Translation: King of Great Britain France and Ireland) |
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By 1700, William III's coinage was already in its third revision of bust and harp design — iterative corrections driven partly by aesthetic dissatisfaction at the Mint and partly by the need to distinguish new strikes from the heavily clipped and debased silver that had plagued English circulation throughout the 1690s. The Great Recoinage of 1696, overseen by Isaac Newton as newly appointed Warden of the Mint, had withdrawn and reminted vast quantities of hammered silver, and these milled crowns were direct products of that reform effort.
William died in February 1702, making 1700 one of the final crown issues of his reign.