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Metal detecting holidays in England with the Worlds most successful metal detecting club Twinned with Midwest Historical Research Society USA |
Edward VII 1901 - 1910 On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901 the royal house took the Germanic surname of her consort Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. King Edward VII, who reigned until 1910, was to be the only sovereign of that dynasty to reign in Britain. The House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha descended in the male line from the Wettin family, German Prince-Electors of Saxony, the earliest traceable member of the House of Wettin was Thiedericus who died in 982, who was probably based in the Liesgau. Its earliest known ancestors pushed pushing the frontier of Germany eastward into formerly Slav territory. They acquired their name from their castle on the bank of the Saale river. At the height of World War I, when German xenophobia had reached boiling point, Edward VII's son, King George V (1910- 1936) changed the family name to the more English sounding House of Windsor. Members of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha occupied the thrones of other European countries, including Belgium, Portugal and Bulgaria. |
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1909 Edward VII milled gold half sovereign |
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1910 Edward
VII milled silver one shilling (12 pence) |
1905 Edward
VII milled silver six pence |
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1910
Edward VII milled
silver 6 pence |
1903
Edward VII milled silver sixpence |
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1903 Edward VII milled silver 6 pence |
1910 Edward VII milled silver 6 pence |
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1902 Edward VII milled silver shilling |
1907 Edward VII milled silver sixpence |
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1906 Edward VII milled silver sixpence |
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George V 1910 - 1936 George V's embodied diligence and duty and sought to represent his subjects, rather than define government policy as his predecessors Victoria and Edward had. George was born on 3 June 1865 in London, the second son of the Prince of Wales. When George was 18 he went into the Royal Navy, but the death of his elder brother in 1892 meant he had to leave a career he enjoyed, as he was now heir to the throne. He married his elder brother's fiancée, Princess Mary of Teck, and they had six children. In 1901 George's father became king and in May 1910, George himself became king. His reign began amid a constitutional crisis over the government's attempt to curb the power of the House of Lords. After the Liberal government obtained the king's promise to create sufficient peers to overcome Conservative opposition in the Lords (and won a second election in 1910), the Parliament Bill was passed by the Lords in 1911 without a mass creation of peers. 1911 also saw George's visit to India, the only king-emperor to make the journey. Public respect for the king increased during World War One, when he made many visits to the front line, hospitals, factories and dockyards. In 1917 anti-German feeling led him to adopt the family name of Windsor, replacing the Germanic Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. After the overthrow of the Russian Tsar in 1917, the post-war world saw the toppling of monarchies all over Europe, many of them related to the British royal family. The king's relationship with parts of the British Empire changed too. The 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin, and subsequent civil war, resulted in the setting up of the Irish Free State in 1922, which became a dominion, while the six northern counties remained part of the United Kingdom. The Statute of Westminster of 1931 meant dominion parliaments could now pass laws without reference to United Kingdom laws. This paradoxically increased the monarchy's importance, since the dominions (no longer subordinated to one supreme parliament at Westminster) were now linked through common allegiance to the crown. India gained a measure of self-governance in 1935. In 1924, George readily accepted the first Labour government. In 1931 the international economic slump caused a political crisis in Britain. The king promoted the idea of a coalition national government of Labour, Conservatives and Liberals, which was eventually formed. In 1935, the King celebrated his Silver Jubilee, an occasion of great public rejoicing. He died on 20 January 1936 and was succeeded by his son Edward.
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1910- 1935
George V silver Jubilee Medallion
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George V
silver hallmarked commemerative medal 1911 |
1923 George
V milled silver Florin (3 shillings)(z) |
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1921 George
V milled silver florin (24 pence)(y) |
1931 George
V milled silver 6 pence |
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George V
shilling |
2 milled
silvers, Young Victoria & George V |
1931 2 shilling
silver |
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1923 George
V milled silver sixpence(x) |
George V
1926 milled silver sixpence(c) |
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1926 George
V milled silver six pence
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1912 George
V milled silver Florin (24 pence) |
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1928 George
V milled silver sixpence(r) |
1921 silver
milled sixpence (b) |
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This really
clean silver sixpence was a black crusty lump and thought to be a grotty
copper until Californian Vicie cleaned it up. Must send mine to her as
she did a really good job LOL |
1922 George
milled silver shilling(b) |
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George V
1914 milled silver half crown (30 pence)
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George V
1936 milled silver half crown (30pence) |
Huge 1922
George V milled silver half crown(30 pence) |
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1917
George V milled silver half crown (30 pence)
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1921
George V milled silver sixpence |
George
V 1912 milled silver shilling |
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1931
Geroge V milled silver half crown (30 pence) |
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comparison of 1931 half crown and Henry VI penny |
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1928 George
IV milled silver sixpence |
1930 George
V milled silver sixpence |
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1921
George IV milled silver sixpence(b) |
1929
George IV milled silver sixpence(b) |
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Huge 1928
George milled silver half crown (30 pence)
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1917
George V silver milled threepence |
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George V
1922 Milled silver half crown (30 pence) |
George V
1920 milled silver sixpence
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1921 George
V milled silver 2 shilling piece 'Florin' (24 pence) |
1914 milled
silver Halfcrown (30 pence) forgery
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1922 George
V milled silver Florin ( 24 pence)
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1915 George
V milled silver six pence |
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1928 George
V milled silver sixpence |
1915 George
V milled silver sixpence |
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1929 George
V milled silver Florin (24 pence) |
1925
George V milled silver 6 pence
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1928
George V milled silver six pence |
1922 George V milled silver sixpence |
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1923 George V milled silver sixpence |
1923 George V milled silver sixpence |
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1931 George V milled silver sixpence |
1916 George V milled silver halfcrown (30 pence) |
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1929 George V milled silver sixpence |
1936 George V milled silver shilling |
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1929 George V milled silver sixpence |
1928 George V milled silver sixpence (108) |
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1911 George V milled silver sixpence |
1936 George V milled silver sixpence |
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1923 George V milled silver sixpence |
1933 George V milled silver sixpence |
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1929 George V milled silver sixpence |
1935 George V milled silver shilling |
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1936 George VImilled silver florin (24 pence) |
1922 George V milled silver sixpence | ||
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1920 George VI milled silver sixpence
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1928 George V milled silver sixpence |
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1931 George V milled silver sixpence |
1921 George V milled silver three pence |
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1929 George V milled silver shilling(12 pence) |
1919 George V milled silver sixpence |
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1935 George V milled silver sixpence |
1919 George V milled silver sixpence |
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1927 George V milled silver shilling |
1932 George V milled silver sixpence |
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1929 George V milled silver shilling |
1917 George V milled silver 3 pence |
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1933 George V milled silver half crown (30 pence) |
1928 George V milled silver sixpence |
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1924 George V milled silver shilling |
1921 George V milled silver shilling |
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1920 George V milled silver half crown (30 pence) |
1929 George V milled silver half crown (30 pence) |
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1917 George V Indian milled silver 2 Annas |
1935 George V milled silver sixpence |
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1932 George V milled silver half crown |
1923 George V milled silver half crown (30 Pence) | ||
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1933 George V milled silver sixpence | 1921 George V milled silver sixpence | ||
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1920 George V milled silver sixpence | 1921 George V milled silver half crown (30 pence) | ||
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1922 George V milled silver florin (24 pence) | 1919 George V milled silver florin (24 pence) | ||
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1931 George V milled silver half crown (30 pence) | 1920 George V milled silver shilling (12 pence) | ||
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1921 George V milled silver half crown (30 pence) | Size comparison , Half Crown, shilling and sixpence | ||
Edward VIII 1936 |
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George VI 1936 - 1952 |
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1940 Half
Crown ( 30 Pence) 1942 shilling (12 pence) 1921 sixpence
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1943 George
VI Silver sixpence |
1942 silver
sixpence |
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1942 Milled
silver 2 shillings |
1942 George
VI milled silver sixpence(b) |
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George VI
1945 silver sixpence(b)
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1943 George
VI milled silver 2 shillings (24 pence)(y) |
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1943 George
V milled silver sixpence |
1946 George
VI Milled silver sixpence(y) |
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1939 silver
sixpence |
George V
1940 milled silver sixpence
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1939 George
VI Milled silver sixpence |
1941 George
VI milled silver 3 pence(y)
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1946 George V Florin (24 pence) Last year of the silver coins |
1942 George
VI milled silver sixpence
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1945 George
VI milled silver sixpence |
1939 George
V milled silver sixpence |
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1945
George VI milled silver 6 pence
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George
V & VI milled silver, 1936 shilling and 2- 1946 sixpences.
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George
V & VI milled silver 1926 shilling ,1929, 2x 1939,2x 1943 sixpences
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1929
George V milled silver half crown (30 pence) and sixpence
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1857
Victorian milled silver sixpences and a huge George V 1922 Half crown
(30 pence) |
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1945 George VI milled silver florin (24 pence) |
1945 George V milled silver sixpence |
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1937 George VI milled silver sixpence |
1942 George VI milled silver sixpence |
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1939 George VI milled silver sixpence |
1939 George V milled silver sixpence |
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1946 George VI milled silver sixpence | 1946 George VI milled silver sixpence | ||
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1940 George VI milled silver shilling (12 pence) |
1946 George VI milled silver sixpence |
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1942 George VI milled silver sixpence |
1939 George VI milled silver sixpence (186) |
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1937 George VI milled silver sixpence (200) |
1940 George VI milled silver half crown (30 pence) |
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1942 George VI milled silver shilling (12 pence) |
1944 George VI milled silver sixpence |
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1944 George VI milled silver sixpence |
1943 George VI milled silver half crown (30 pence) |
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1943 George VI milled silver sixpence |
1939 George VI milled silver sixpence |
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1943 George VI milled silver sixpence |
1945 George VI milled silver shilling (12 pence) |
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1940 Georghe VI milled silver sixpence |
1946 George VI milled silver shilling (12 pence) |
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1940 George V milled silver sixpence |
1937 George V milled silver sixpence |
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1941 George VI milled silver sixpence | |||
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