fwo_825034 - GREAT BRITAIN - GEORGE III 1/2 Crown type à la petite tête 1819
280.00 €(Approx. 296.80$ | 232.40£)
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Type : 1/2 Crown type à la petite tête
Date: 1819
Quantity minted : 4790000
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 925 ‰
Diameter : 32 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 14,15 g.
Edge : striée
Rarity : R1
Obverse
Obverse legend : GEORGIVS III DEI GRATIA.
Obverse description : Portait lauré à droite de Georges III.
Reverse
Reverse legend : BRITANNIARUM REX FID: DEF:.
Reverse description : écu couronné, inscription motto HONI SOIT Q MAL Y PENSE.
Commentary
La demi-couronne (1/2 Crown) vaut 2 Shillings et 6 Pence ou un huitième de Livre or. Ce type monétaire a été introduit en 1549 sous le règne d’Edouard VI.
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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