1356 - 61 AD GOLD GREAT BRITAIN 1/4 NOBLE EDWARD III PCGS AU 50

KINGDOM OF ENGLAND

REIGN OF EDWARD III (1327-1377)

HOUSE OF PLANTAGENET

GRADED BY PCGS AS ABOUT UNCIRCULATED 50

OBV: ARMS OF ENGLAND QUARTERED WITH FRANCE

REV: ORNAMENTAL CROSS

SB # 1498

EDWARD WAS ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL OF ENGLAND'S MEDIEVAL MONARCHS WHO TRANSFORMED HIS MILITARY INTO THE MOST EFFICIENT IN EUROPE

HE DECLARED HIMSELF RIGHTFUL HEIR TO THE FRENCH THRONE IN 1338 WHICH PRECIPITATED THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR WITH FRANCE

HIS FORCES WON THE BATTLE OF CRECY IN 1346 AND THE BATTLE OF POITIERS IN 1356, HE IS CREDITED WITH ACTING SWIFTLY AND STABILIZING THE GOVERNMENT IN THE WAKE OF THE BLACK DEATH, ESTABLISHED THE ORDER OF THE GARTER AND PAVED THE WAY FOR THE ANGLICIZATION OF THE KINGDOM WHICH LED TO THE REPLACEMENT OF FRENCH WITH ENGLISH AS THE MOST WIDELY SPOKEN LANGUAGE  IN ENGLAND