Description

George III. 1760-1820. Silver Medal 1789, 18.56 g. George III, Recovery of Health. By J. P. Droz. Bust, laureate. GEORGIVS III . D . G . MAG . BR . FR . ET . HIB . REX. Rv. Snake entwined around a tripod on which rests a burning altar. FELICITAS PUBLICA. In exergue: SAL . REG . REST . 1789. Plain edge. 34.7 mm. Eimer 827. BHM 311. Brockmann 1006. Gutes vorzüglich / About Uncirculated. Hübsche Patina / Attractively toned.

From the auction WAG 11, Dortmund, March 1998, lot 909.

The Acts of Union 1800 unified Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with George as its King. He was concurrently Duke and Prince-elector of Hanover in the Holy Roman Empire before becoming King of Hanover on 12 October 1814. He was a monarch of the House of Hanover, who, unlike his two predecessors, was born in Great Britain, spoke English as his first language, and never visited Hanover. He repeatedly suffered from episodes of an unspecified mental illness, one of those occurred in 1788 from which he recovered in 1789.