During the reign of James II (1685 – 1689) the value of tin collapsed. To help rescue owners of mines in Britain from financial ruin the government began minting tin coins for use in the plantation colonies in the West Indies.
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Themes
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Trade and Commerce
Understand how the demand for luxury goods and the Industrial Revolution fuelled the transatlantic slave trade, and how the British…