Fao - The Km Players

[seekeerz]

Here are today's shaded clues for you -

4d Word describing the intensity of the wind and weather conditions when categorized as 10 on the Beaufort scale [5]

9d Former gold coin bearing the depiction of a dragon being slain [5]

18d Item such as a tealight [6]

39d ------- Tell; Swiss folk hero said to have shot an apple from the top of his son's head with a crossbow [7]

[scorpiojo]

Storm

Candle?
William

[tonyav]

The only gold coin that I know of with a dragon being slain is a sovereign !.

[Mamyalynne]

Crown?

[scorpiojo]

Crown

[cupid04]

storm
crown
candle
william

[seekeerz]

9d is the one I'm still trying to confirm ....agree with tony about the sovereign ....tricky !!

[twix123]

Thanks Steff.

The Victorian 'Crown' coin, 5 shillings, had a Reverse depicting St. George slaying the dragon.

[seekeerz]

Well just to confuse us all ....and having worked out the surrounding clues ....the answer is ...ANGEL. !!!


I get the feeling this is not a UK coin

[Mamyalynne]

It was

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_(coin)

[twix123]

The angel, first issued in 1461 with a value of 80 pence, was raised to 90 pence in 1526, and then further to 96 pence (eight shillings) in 1544. By 1550 during the reign of Edward VI the angel was valued at ten shillings.

The denomination continued to be issued at this value through the reign of Elizabeth I and also during the reign of James I.

Good old Google:
Angel:
In 1612 the value of all angels was raised to eleven shillings. This lasted for seven years until 1619, when the a new lighter angel was introduced at ten shillings. The design remained basically the same on the obverse, but the coat of arms on a ship on the reverse changed to a ship in full sail.

The angel was last minted in 1643.

The link does show what appears to be St.George slaying that dragon.

http://www.coins-of-the-uk.co.uk/pics/hamm/eliz/10s/ang5.jpg

[Mamyalynne]

It actually depicted St Michael.

[baza]

The angel depicted St Michael not St George doing the dragon in.

[twix123]

Well spotted Mamya.

Can we get them at Marks & Spencer?

[seekeerz]

The clue only mentions a dragon being slain, not by whom, I guess our assumption was that it was St George, particularly in light of the coin minted for George Vlll, but never released

[seekeerz]

Oops sorry, Edward VIII

[baza]

Edward the 1V. or Edward the one before five.

[baza]

Edward V111 was never crowned. He abdicated so George V1 was crowned instead.

[seekeerz]

baza ...he had the coin minted prior to his coronation, but of course not released as he whizzed off and did other things ( just as well, as some people think !! )

[cupid04]

The Angel was an English gold coin introduced by Edward 1V in 1465. It was patterned after the French angelot or ange which had been issued since 1340. The name derived from its representation of the Archangel Michael slaying a dragon. As it was considered a new issue of the noble, it was also called the angel noble.

[It took me yonks to write the above as I can't do links :-(

[seekeerz]

there you are, cupid, industry has been rewarded ....now I have to completely rewrite the Links Game as I hadn't selected a category when I typed it ...oh botheration...who said change was a good thing !! :(((