fme_907776 - ENGLAND - GEORGE III médaille, Amiral Nelson, Bataille de Copenhague
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Type : médaille, Amiral Nelson, Bataille de Copenhague
Date: 1801
Metal : copper
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,05 g.
Edge : cannelée
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Restes de brillant. Traces de manipulation
Obverse
Obverse legend : ENGLAND EXPECTS EVERY MAN WILL DO HIS DUTY.
Obverse description : Buste habillé de profil à gauche, en tenue d’officier.
Reverse
Reverse legend : COPENHAGEN / THE / DAN FLEET / OF 17 SAIL / TAKEN, SUNK, / OR DESTROYED. / AP.L 2. 1801.
Reverse description : Légende en 7 lignes.
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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