Great Britain, William III, Crown 1695, OCTAVO, aXF

William III (1694-1702)

Great Britain, William III, Crown 1695, OCTAVO, aXF

Name: Great Britain, William III, Crown 1695, OCTAVO, aXF
SKU: F555
Price: 549 EUR
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Obverse: First laureate and draped bust of King William III right, legend around.

Lettering (Latin): GVLIELMVS · III · DEI · GRA ·

Engraver: James Roettier

Reverse: Crowned cruciform shields around central Nassau lion, divided date above, legend around.

Lettering (Latin): MAG BR·FRA· ET·HIB· REX ·16 95·

Engraver: John Roettier

Edge (Text in Latin, Regnal year): DECVS ET TVTAMEN. ANNO REGNI OCTAVO

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€ 549

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Country	Great Britain
Ruler	William III (1694-1702)
Face Value	Crown
Year of issue	1695
Metal	Silver
Fineness	925
Catalogue #	KM# 486; SPINK 3470; ESC 991
Weight, g.	29,89
Diameter, mm.	39,8
Our code	F555
Die Axis	↑↓
Additional info	-

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History

In the Latin of the edge inscription – “DECVS ET TVTAMEN ANNO REGNI OCTAVO” – it means simply the eighth year of the reign. William III had come to the throne in 1689, when he crossed the Channel from the Netherlands with an invasion fleet and displaced the Catholic James II in what history, with characteristic English understatement, would call the Glorious Revolution. By 1695, the eighth year of that reign, the kingdom he had inherited was fighting for its financial life – and the crown struck that year was born directly from that crisis.

England’s silver coinage in 1695 was in a state of near-collapse. Decades of clipping had reduced the average coin in circulation to barely half its proper weight. Commerce was grinding to a halt. The army on the Continent could not be paid in debased silver that foreign creditors refused. Into this emergency stepped an unlikely pair: William Lowndes of the Treasury, and the Warden of the Royal Mint – Isaac Newton, lately of Trinity College Cambridge, who had spent thirty years studying the mathematics of the universe and now turned the same relentless intellect toward the rather more urgent mathematics of silver and fraud.

The Crown of 1695 was among the first products of what became the Great Recoinage – machine-struck, perfectly circular, its edges milled with precision that made clipping immediately visible and therefore pointless. The old hammered coins, worn smooth and shaved thin by a generation of fraud, were called in. The new coins that replaced them were a statement: that England’s money could be trusted, that its weight and fineness were guaranteed, and that the sovereign whose portrait they bore took that guarantee seriously.

On the obverse, William III faces right in laureate and draped bust – the first portrait type used on his crowns, engraved by the Flemish artist James Roettier, whose family had served the Stuart and then the Orange court with equal professional loyalty. The Latin legend reads “GVLIELMVS III DEI GRA” – William III by the Grace of God – the same formula that English monarchs had used since the medieval era, continuity of form in a moment of radical constitutional change. On the reverse, the crowned cruciform shields of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland surround the central lion of Nassau – William’s own heraldic device, inserted into the heart of English royal iconography as a quiet reminder of where the salvation of the Protestant constitution had actually come from.

At the time of this coin’s minting, a Crown – five shillings – represented roughly one week’s wages for a skilled craftsman. It was not small money. The people who carried this coin in their pockets knew its weight, knew its value, and had spent years watching coins just like it being slowly stolen from them by invisible increments.