GEORGE III 3-PENCE 1762
George III became King of England in 1760 succeeding after his grandfather George II died. After 5 years of conflictof the French & Indian war, the governments in Europe were beginning to run short of both men & money with which to continue the war which led to final attempts to seize territory to use as bargaining chips in peace negotiations as well as overtures for peace. When George III took over in 1760 he began to shift British policy. This 3-pence along with the 1,2, & 4-pence were all issued for use as currency coins.
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BRITISH HALFPENCE 1745
King George's War was the 3rd in a series of Anglo-French Colonial conflicts in N. America. Britain & France had been in conflict over colonial boundaries in Acadia, N. New England, & the Ohio Valley. Warfare developed in the American colonies in 1744 when the French attacked a British position at Canso, Nova Scotia on May 13 destroying a fortification & transporting prisoners to the French stronghold at Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island. In 1745, Wm. Pepperrell from Maine raised a force of 4,000 men & attacked Louisbourg which was regarded as the most secure position in N. America. The British Navy assisted by preventing reinforcements from reaching the French fort. The siege ended in June when British soldiers staged an heroic raid on the fortress, forcing its capitulation. King George II rewarded Pepperrell with a baronetcy, the 1st American colonist so honored.
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BRITISH SHILLING 1745
During King George's War from 1744- 1748 the French had lost Louisbourg to the British so they moved to Crown Point on Lake Champlain which was a staging area for Native American attacks on English settlements. Sir Wm. Johnson responded by organizing the Iroquois to strike back against French positions. French counterstrikes fell against Saratoga & Albany in late 1745. Losses on both sides were extemely high, but no clear victor emerged from the fighting in the West. King George's War did not resolve the North American rivalry between France & Britain, that resolution would not occur for another 15 years. AN EXACT REPLICA

WILLIAM & MARY 1689 HALFCROWN
William & Mary accepted the English crown in 1688. They were proclaimed joint rulers of Great Britain until Mary's death in 1694. William continued ruling until his death in 1702. King William's War from 1689- 1697 was the 1st in a series of colonial conflicts between France & England for supremacy in North America. The major goal, other than prestige, was the control of the fur trade. Conflict was already smoudering on the N.E. frontier at the time of the English declaration of war against France in May of 1689. The French were angered over the plundering of St. Castine's Trading House, so they incited the Abernaki Indians of Maine to destroy the rival English post of Pemaquid, & also to attack frontier settlements.
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