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A shilling of George III, king at the turn of the 19th century.. The King's shilling, sometimes called the Queen's shilling when the Sovereign is female, [1] is a historical slang term referring to the earnest payment of one shilling given to recruits to the armed forces of the United Kingdom in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, although the practice dates back to the end of the English Civil ...
Coin of Offa, king of Mercia, 757-796, with the Latin legend OFFA REX MERCIOR; British coins still carry Latin inscriptions in the 21st century. In the latter part of the 8th century a new style of silver penny appeared in Anglo-Saxon England, thinner and commonly bearing the names of both the king and the moneyer who had struck it.
Many different weapons were created and used in Anglo-Saxon England between the fifth and eleventh centuries. Spears , used for piercing and throwing, were the most common weapon. Other commonplace weapons included the sword, axe, and knife—however, bows and arrows , as well as slings , were not frequently used by the Anglo-Saxons.
Metal tankards often come with a glass bottom. The legend is that the glass-bottomed tankard was developed as a way of refusing the King's shilling, i.e., conscription into the British Army or Navy. The drinker could see the coin in the bottom of the glass and refuse the drink, thereby avoiding conscription.
Half-crown (Two shillings Six pence or 30-pence) coin, dated September 1689. A gun money Shilling , with a portrait of James II dated April 1690. Gun money ( Irish : airgead gunna ) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] was an issue of coins made by the forces of James II during the Williamite War in Ireland between 1689 and 1691.
The sovereign was a gold coin of the Kingdom of England first issued in 1489 under King Henry VII. The coin had a nominal value of one pound sterling, or twenty shillings. The sovereign was primarily an official piece of bullion and had no mark of value on its face. Nonetheless, it was the country's first coin to be valued at one pound. [1]
When weapons were sold from service the mark was sometimes cancelled or, in the case, of the broad arrow a second arrow marked, point to point with the first. An "N" for navy is sometimes marked. From the late 19th century cutlasses were often stamped with the last two digits of the year of manufacture.
The Wallace Sword is an antique two-handed sword purported to have belonged to William Wallace (1270–1305), a Scottish knight who led a resistance to the English occupation of Scotland during the First War of Scottish Independence. It is said to have been used by William Wallace at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297 and the Battle of ...