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Great Britain, William IV, Halfcrown 1834, W.W. in block, F-FV

William IV (1830-37)

Great Britain, William IV, Halfcrown 1834, W.W. in block, F-FV

Name: Great Britain, William IV, Halfcrown 1834, W.W. in block, F-FV
SKU: G113
Price: 52 EUR
Availability: InStock

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Obverse: Uncrowned portrait of King William IV right, legend around.

Lettering: GULIELMUS IIII D: G: BRITANNIAR: REX F: D:

Translation: William the Fourth by the Grace of God King of the Britains Defender of the Faith

Engraver: William Wyon

Reverse: Crowned and mantled shield of arms, date below.

Lettering: ANNO 1834

Engraver: Jean Baptiste Merlen

Edge: Reeded

The pictures provided are of the actual coin for sale.

Guaranteed genuine.

€ 52 ~~€ 55~~

In stock

Country	Great Britain
Ruler	William IV (1830-37)
Face Value	Halfcrown
Year of issue	1834
Metal	Silver
Fineness	925
Catalogue #	KM# 714.2; SPINK 3834A; ESC 2474 (R); Davies 322
Weight, g.	13,55
Diameter, mm.	32,04
Our code	G113
Die Axis	↑↓
Additional info	W.W. (on truncation) in Block

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History

By 1834, Britain was a country that had just survived itself.

Two years earlier, the Great Reform Act of 1832 had passed after a constitutional crisis that brought the country closer to revolution than most people cared to admit. Rotten boroughs – ancient constituencies with a handful of voters, controlled by aristocratic patrons – were swept away. New industrial cities like Manchester and Birmingham, which had grown to hundreds of thousands of souls without a single Member of Parliament, were finally given representation. It was not democracy in any modern sense, but it was the first serious crack in a political structure that had barely changed since the medieval era. The streets had been tense for years. Reform riots had broken out across the country. The House of Lords burned to the ground in October 1834 – caused by an overheated stove, though some saw the hand of providence.

Presiding over all of it was King William IV, the bare-headed figure on the obverse of this coin. He was sixty-nine years old in 1834, the third son of George III, a blunt former naval officer who had never expected to be king and made little effort to pretend otherwise. He had earned the nickname the Sailor King honestly, having served in the American Revolutionary War and the Caribbean as a young midshipman. He disliked ceremony, cut the royal budget dramatically, and once tried to give Buckingham Palace away to the Army as a barracks. His coronation had been so deliberately understated that critics mockingly called it the “Half-Crownation” – a jab that, given the coin in question, carries a certain irony.

The year 1834 was his most turbulent in power. In November, he became the last British monarch to dismiss a sitting government that held the confidence of Parliament – sacking Lord Melbourne’s Whigs and appointing the Tory Robert Peel in his place. It did not work. Peel could not hold a majority, Melbourne returned within months, and the moment passed into constitutional history as the last gasp of genuine royal political authority. After 1834, British monarchs would reign but not rule in any meaningful sense.

William had three years left. He died in 1837, leaving no legitimate heirs, and the crown passed to an eighteen-year-old girl who would go on to reign for sixty-three years and give her name to an entire age. William IV is largely forgotten, standing in Victoria’s long shadow – but this coin belongs to him, to his unglamorous, consequential, underestimated reign.

It is a Halfcrown from the last moment Britain’s monarchy still had real edges.