Live auction - fwo_762783 - GREAT BRITAIN - GEORGE III 1/2 Souverain 1817 Londres
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| Estimate : | 2 500 € |
| Price : | 1 800 € |
| Maximum bid : | 2 030 € |
| End of the sale : | 06 September 2022 19:13:00 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : 1/2 Souverain
Date: 1817
Mint name / Town : Londres
Quantity minted : 2080000
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 917 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,00 g.
Edge : cannelée
Obverse
Obverse legend : GEROGIUS III DEI GRATIA / 1817.
Obverse description : Tête laurée à droite de Georges III.
Obverse translation : (Georges III par la grâce de Dieu).
Reverse
Reverse legend : BRITANNIARUM - REX FID: .
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Reverse description : Écu couronné, écartelé aux 1 et 4 d'Angleterre, au 2 d'Écosse, au 3 d'Irlande.
Commentary
Le demi-souverain a été introduit sous Henri VIII en 1544. La fabrication a été stoppée entre 1604 et 1817. Réapparue sous Georges III, suite à la loi dite ''Great Recoinage'' de 1816, en même temps que le Souverain..
Historical background
GREAT BRITAIN - GEORGE III
(25/10/1760-29/01/1820)
Georges III (4/06/1738-29/01/1820) is the grandson of Georges II, whom he succeeded in 1760, and the son of Frédéric-Louis (1707-1751), Prince of Wales and Augusta of Saxony-Gotha. He married Charlotte, daughter of Charles Louis Frédéric of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, on September 8, 1761 and was crowned on the 22nd. Suffering from increasingly pronounced fits of dementia, his son Georges IV had to assume the regency from 1810. Georges III is the first truly English King of the Hanoverian dynasty. He won the Seven Years' War (1756-1763, Treaty of Paris). He lost the colonies in North America (1775-1783, Treaty of Versailles 1783). He fights against the revolution and is the enemy of Napoleon I. Crazy, he died in 1820 two years after Charlotte.
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