Each succeeding British sovereign “ looks the opposite way ” to his predecessor on our coinage. This has been observed since the Restoration of Charles 11. who expressed a strong desire to look the same way as Oliver Cromwell. It was in the reign of Charles II that Britannia first appeared on the English coinage, the original model being taken from a portrait of beautiful Frances Stewart. Duchess of Richmond, and a famous court favourite.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3830, 9 August 1927, Page 72
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