Description

George III. 1760-1820. Silver Medal 1815, 13.92 g. Duke of Wellington and Marshal Blücher. By G. Götze and D. Loos. Heads of BLÜCHER and WELLINGTON face to face within a wreath. Rv. Inscription in fourteen lines: DER ENTSCHEIDENDEN HELDEN - SCHLACHT GLORREICHE VOLLENDUNG EINZUG DER PREUSSISCHEN UND ENGLISCHEN SIEGER IN PARIS D . 7 JULIUS 1815. Plain edge. 36.5 mm. Eimer 1073 var. Sommer A 180. Bramsen 1673 Fast FDC / About Mint State. Herrliche Patina / Most attractively toned.

From the auction Gerhard Hirsch Nachf. 235/236, Munich, September 2004, lot 2914.

The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815, near Waterloo (at that time in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, now in Belgium), marking the end of the Napoleonic Wars. The French Imperial Army under the command of Napoleon I was defeated by two armies of the Seventh Coalition. One of these was a British-led force with units from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Hanover, Brunswick, and Nassau, under the command of field marshal Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (often referred to as the Anglo-allied army or Wellington's army). The other comprised three corps (the 1st, 2nd and 4th corps) of the Prussian army under Field Marshal Blücher.