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Farthing - Elizabeth Stuart - Queen of Bohemia Dover, Kent
| Issuer | Proprietor of 'The Queen of Bohemia' (Dover, England) |
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| Year | 1649-1672 |
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| Currency | Pound sterling (1158-1970) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | AT ◆ THE ◆ QVEENE ◆ OF |
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Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of James I, became Queen of Bohemia for a single winter — 1619 to 1620 — before Frederick V's defeat at the Battle of White Mountain sent her into decades of Flemish exile. She became a romantic fixture in English popular memory precisely because she never came back. Tradesmen's tokens of this period were an emergency response to the near-total absence of official small change under the Commonwealth and early Restoration, and tavern and inn keepers issued their own copper pieces to make transactions possible at all.
A Dover innkeeper trading under her name issued this farthing token — her enduring celebrity doing commercial work long after her death in February 1662.