3 ms·
Didn't the Roman's bring gold coins 1200 years earlier? Seems a stretch to call it one of England's earliest gold coins.
by vanattab 5y ago
Didn't the Roman's bring gold coins 1200 years earlier? Seems a stretch to call it one of England's earliest gold coins.
- tokai 5y agoRoman Britan is not England now is it?
- egberts1 5y agoIsn’t that called being a history revisionist?
- SideburnsOfDoom 5y agoThe coin has a picture of King Henry III of England on it. A coin used earlier in the Roman province of Britain, even in the same location, would have a picture of the Emperor in Rome on it. That's what makes it "one of England's earliest gold coins". One of the earliest coins of "England as a state".
- adolph 5y agoThis site also claims that Roman's minted coin in the territory now known as England. http://www.kenelks.co.uk/coins/roman/roman.htm http://www.kenelks.co.uk/coins/roman/roman.htm I think the significance of this coin to English people is that Henry III is king when the Magna Carta is negotiated and the royal domain across the channel is severed. This places the coin in a context of when what was to become modern England became identifiable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_III_of_England https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_III_of_England