Description

George IV. 1820-1830. Gold Medal 1827, 0.58 g. Miniature complimentary gold medal. Death of Duke of York. By B. Pistrucci. Bust, bare. FREDERICUS DUX EBORAC. Rv. MULTIS ILLE BONUS FLEBILIS OCCIDIT NON . IANUAR 1827. Plain edge. 8.1 mm. Eimer -. BHM 1284. Sehr selten / Very rare. Vorzüglich / Extremely Fine.

Purchased from Schweizerischer Bankverein, Basel, June 1984, lot 1284.

Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (16 August 1763 - 5 January 1827) was the second son of George III, King of the United Kingdom and Hanover, and his consort Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

A soldier by profession, from 1764 to 1803 he was Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück in the Holy Roman Empire. From the death of his father in 1820 until his own death in 1827, he was the heir presumptive to his elder brother, George IV, in both the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Kingdom of Hanover.

Frederick died of dropsy and apparent cardiovascular disease at the home of the Duke of Rutland on Arlington Street, London, in 1827.

The gold examples of this medal were probably originally offered for sale in an ivory box by Thomas Hamlet.