Description

Anne, 1702-1714. Silver Medal 1707, 42.11 g. Union of England and Scotland. By J. Croker. Bust, crowned and draped. ANNA . D : G . MAG : BRI : FR : ET . HIB : REG: Rv. British shield within the Garter, crowned, upon a pedestal inscribed with the double cypher of A R; supported by a lion and unicorn. MAII . I . MDCCVII. Plain edge. 47.2 mm. Eimer 424a. MI ii 295/107. Vorzüglich / Extremely Fine. Herrliche Patina / Most attractively toned.

Purchased from Coincraft, London, September 1997, lot RC1071.

The Acts of Union refer to two acts of Parliament, one by the Parliament of Scotland in March 1707, followed shortly thereafter by an equivalent act of the Parliament of England. They put into effect the International Treaty of Union agreed on 22 July 1706, which politically joined the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into a single "political state", the Kingdom of Great Britain, with Queen Anne as sovereign of both Kingdoms. The English and Scots acts of ratification took effect on 1 May 1707, creating the new kingdom, with its parliament based in the Palace of Westminster.