George III. 1760-1820. Silver Medal 1806, 78.08 g. Death of Charles James Fox. By T. Webb. Bust, draped. C . I . FOX OB . SEP . XIII MDCCCVI. Rv. Angel on globe holds wreaths. LIBERTATIS . HVMANITATISQVE VINDEX. Plain edge. 53.5 mm. Eimer 979. BHM 604. Fast vorzüglich / About Extremely Fine. Leicht fleckige Patina / Slightly spotty patina.

Purchased from Spink Numismatic Circular, London, May 1997, lot 3354.

Charles James Fox (24 January 1749 - 13 September 1806), styled The Honourable from 1762, was a British Whig politician and statesman whose parliamentary career spanned thirty-eight years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was the arch-rival of the Tory politician William Pitt the Younger; his father Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, a leading Whig of his day, had similarly been the great rival of Pitt's famous father, William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham ("Pitt the Elder"). Fox died - still in office - at Chiswick House, west of London, on 13 September 1806, not eight months after the younger Pitt.