Gunmoney

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One shilling, 1689

Gunmoney , German cannon money , is the name of a series of coins that were made in the name of James II (England) during the invasion of his French support army from June 1689 to October 1690 from the metal of old cannons and other scrap parts Promise to exchange them for silver money later. Initially, it was sixpence , shilling (12 pence) and half-crown coins (two and a half shillings / 30 pence). Later the coins of the same size with the next higher denomination were issued, i.e. the sixpence-size shilling, the half-crown in the shilling-size and the crown in the half-crown size. Often coins were simply overminted. As a special feature, the coins (with the exception of the Crown coin) were not only marked with the year, but also with the month of issue. When William of Orange's fighters conquered the Dublin coin after the Battle of Boyne , the Jacobites continued minting for a short time in Limerick. The cannon money was suspended by Wilhelm in 1691.