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Live auction - fwo_933406 - ENGLAND - GEORGE III Guinée, 6e buste ou “Military guinea” 1813 Londres

ENGLAND - GEORGE III Guinée, 6e buste ou “Military guinea” 1813 Londres AU
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Estimate : 5 000 €
Price : 2 500 €
Maximum bid : 2 500 €
End of the sale : 24 September 2024 18:56:51
bidders : 1 bidder
Type : Guinée, 6e buste ou “Military guinea”
Date: 1813
Mint name / Town : Londres
Quantity minted : -
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 917 ‰
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 8,45 g.
Edge : cordonnée
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Léger nettoyage mais un très bel exemplaire ne présentant que peu d’usure
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : GEORGIVS III DEI GRATIA..
Obverse description : Tête laurée à droite.
Obverse translation : (Georges III par la grâce de Dieu).

Reverse


Reverse legend : BRITANNIARUM REX FIDEI DEFENSOR/ 18-13.
Reverse description : Écu couronné écartelé en 1 et 4 d'Angleterre, en 2 d'Écosse, en 3 d'Irlande sur le tout petit écu de Brunswick-Lunebourg couronné, entouré de la devise HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE.
Reverse translation : (roi des Bretons et défenseur de la Foi).

Commentary


Cette guinée qui est la dernière pièce frappée du genre porte le nom de "Guinée militaire" car elle servit à payer les soldats qui combattaient Napoléon entre 1813 et 1815. La guinée tire son nom de l'origine géographique de l'or qui venait au départ du golfe de Guinée.

Historical background


ENGLAND - GEORGE III

(1760-1820)

Georges III (1738-1820) is the grandson of Georges II and the son of Frédéric-Louis (1707-1751), Prince of Wales, and Augusta de Saxe Gotha. He succeeded Georges II in 1760. Suffering from increasingly pronounced attacks of dementia, his son Georges IV had to assume the regency from 1810..

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