What happended in 1602?
Monarch is Queen Elizabeth I. In Oxford the Bodleian Library opens. Shakespeare publishes The Merry Wives of Windsor and there's a first performance of Twelfth Night (on 2 February, which is Candlemas night). English and Spanish fleets clash at the Battle of the Narrow Seas in the Strait of Dover.
Obv | Rev | Cat | Coin |
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![]() | ![]() | Groat | 1602 Halfgroat - Elizabeth I |