Beschreibung

George I. 1714-1727. Silver Medal 1708, 147.35 g. George Ludwig, Elector of Brunswick. By E. Hannibal. Bust, armoured and draped. GEORG . LVD . D . G . DUX . BR . ET . LVN . S . R . I . ELECT. Rv. Eight-line inscription: CAES . AVTH . ET VNAN . S . R . IMP . ORDINVM CONSENSV IN COLLEG . ELECTORALE SOLEMNITER INTRODVCTVS DIE 7. SEPTEMB . 1708 . QVODPATER INCHOAVERAT FELICITER PERFECIT. Plain edge. 66.4 mm. Eimer 432. MI ii 327/154. Brockmann 802. Fast vorzüglich / About Extremely Fine. Leicht gereinigt / Lightly cleaned.

From the auction H. H. Kricheldorf Nachf. 45, Freiburg, July 1996, lot 1206.

George I (28 May 1660 - 11 June 1727) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1 August 1714 and ruler of the Electorate of Hanover within the Holy Roman Empire from 23 January 1698 until his death in 1727. He was the first British monarch of the House of Hanover.

Upon the death of the Elector Palatine without male heirs, William III proposed, at the Congress at the Hague in 1691, that the Protestant interest in the Electoral College should be upheld by the admission of Ernest Augustus of Hanover. His election was signed at Ratisbon on October 1692, but many Princes of the Empire entered a protest against this election as considered to be illegal. This opposition did not cease till the year 1708, when his son, George Ludwig (afterwards George I of England), was unanimously elected. In the following year he was appointed Arch-Treasurer of the Empire, a dignity he always inscribed on his English coinage, and by virtue of which he bore upon an escutcheon the crown of Charlemagne.