Georgian Coins

Half-Crown of George IV, 1821
Shilling of George IV
Crown, George I, England, 1716
Gold guinea of George III, dated 1789

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Half-Crown of George IV, 1821. The inscription reads GEORGIUS IIII D G BRITANNIAR REX D G (George IV, by the Grace of God King of the Britons, Defender of the Faith). George IV was the last British King to be shown on coins wearing a Roman-style laurel wreath [attribution: Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=446259]

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Shilling of George IV [attribution: Rasiel Suarez [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)]]

Crown, George I, England, 1716 [attribution: Daderot [Public domain]]

Gold Guinea of George III, dated 1789. The inscription reads in Latin, “Georgius III Dei Gratia,” or in English “George III, By the Grace of God” [attribution: Coinman62 at English Wikipedia [Public domain]]

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And now for some lines from the story to go with the picture:

“Do you still wish to see your brother?” Bingley asked as Richard was settling himself in bed.

“Yes,” Richard said before sighing with relief as he lay back against his pillows. “Tell him to bring his half-crown,” Richard called after Bingley. “The scoundrel,” he muttered. “He best not be trying to buy any more kisses from Lydia.”

“Does that mean you are not giving her up?” Darcy pulled a chair near the bed.

“No. It means she does not need to be put upon by him.”

[from Loving Lydia, book 3 in the Marrying Elizabeth Series]

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Leenie Brown fell in love with Jane Austen's works when she first read Sense and Sensibility followed immediately by Pride and Prejudice in her early teens. As the second of five daughters and an avid reader, she has always loved to see where her imagination takes her and to play with and write about the characters she meets along the way. In 2013, these two loves collided when she stumbled upon the world of Jane Austen Fan Fiction. A year later, in 2014, she began writing her own Austen-inspired stories and began publishing them in 2015. Leenie lives in Nova Scotia, Canada with her two teenage boys and her very own Mr. Brown (a wonderful mix of all the best of Darcy, Bingley and Edmund with healthy dose of the teasing Mr. Tillney and just a dash of the scolding Mr. Knightley).

2 thoughts on “Georgian Coins”

  1. OK, Richard, you can’t have it both ways. Give her up??? Seriously??? What is he thinking? However, this is the perfect push to having him consider what is at stake by letting Lydia go. She will be open to the advances of other men… including his brother. Well… that puts a different spin on things. He just might decide to keep her so he can protect her. Oh, poor man. This is hard to read but with the humorous spin, you have added sweetener to the bitterness. Like medicine. Ugh!!

    1. Is he giving her up? Hmmm… I *might* have been a tricky author and cut the conversation off in what could be a bit of a misleading place — or not 😀 Guess we’ll know tomorrow? 😀 Richard is still in need of time to heal on all levels. And now he has his brother there to “help” him along. I think you’ll enjoy the relationship that the two brothers have. Or, at least, I hope you will. 🙂

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