Live auction - fwo_989465 - GREAT BRITAIN - GEORGE III 1 Farthing 1799 Soho
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Live starting : Type : 1 Farthing
Date: 1799
Mint name / Town : Soho
Quantity minted : -
Metal : copper
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 6,33 g.
Edge : tranche de sécurité
Coments on the condition:
Restes de brillant de frappe
Predigree :
Collection d’un descendant du Comte Jacques Defermon (1752-1831) ministre d'État et directeur des finances de 1808 à 1815
Obverse
Obverse legend : GEORGIUS III DEI GRATIA REX / 1799.
Obverse description : Buste drapé et lauré à droite du roi Georges III.
Reverse
Reverse legend : BRITANNIA *1 FARTHING*.
Reverse description : Britannia assise à gauche sur un bouclier.
Commentary
Georges III (1738-1820) est le petit-fils de Georges II et le fils de Frédéric-Louis (1707-1751), prince de Galles, et d'Augusta de Saxe Gotha. Il succéda à Georges II en 1760. Atteint de crises de démence de plus en plus prononcées, son fils Georges IV dut assurer la régence à partir de 1810.
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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