Description

George III. 1760-1820. Silver Medal 1807, 154.11 g. Union of England of Scotland Centenary. By T. Wyon. Conjoined heads of the King and Queen Charlotte left, wide border of spear points, final narrow scrolled border. GEORGIVS III . ET CHARLOTTA . REX ET REGINA BRITANNIARUM. WITH GOD AND THE PEOPLE . THE THRONE IS IMMORTAL. Rv. Standing figures of Hibernia, Anglia and Scotia, identified by shamrock, rose and thistle, their hands linked. CONCORD IS THE SECURITY OF NATIONS. In exergue: 1807 below a bundle of arrows. Edge engraving: LT COLONEL THE HON : HENRY STANHOPE . S . G . V . R . S. HANOVER SQUARE. 83.1 mm. Eimer 981. BHM 628. Fast vorzüglich / About Extremely Fine. Mit Henkel / Loop attached.

Purchased from Spink, London, February 2014, lot 58.

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.

The edge engraving is inscribed with the name of a volunteer regiment.