Tudor rose Öffentlichkeit Deposited
The double rose (five inner petals within five outer), symbolizing the union in the Tudor dynasty of the white and red roses of the Yorkists and Lancastrians in the Wars of the Roses. (It became the Royal Badge of England in 1486, at the marriage of Henry VII to Elizabeth of York.) Used as a device in William Wood's ROSA AMERICANA coins, though its meaning may not have been known to King George I at whom this iconographic flattery was aimed..
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