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Great Britain - 1830

Death of George IV

Obverse:

Bare head of George IV, left.

Legend:

GEORGIUS IV DEI GRATIA

Size:

41 mm.

Reverse:

Two allegorical figures standing mourning before funerary urn, cherubs at side BORN AUG^T. 12 . 1762. ASCENDED JAN^Y. 29 . 1820 CROWN'D JULY 19 . 1821

Exergue:

THE ENLIGHTENED / FATHER OF HIS / PEOPLE

Vern's Comments:

This is the rare white metal variety.
Unfortunately in the past collectors thought that coating their coins and medals with lacquer would protect them. Instead it produced an astonishing array of colors, always ugly, depending on their formula of choice. This shade of gray is often encountered with white metal specimens.

BHM:

AE, WM 41 by T. W. Ingram.
AE N; WM R.
Fi. 825.
BM.

See note to No. 1363.

British Historical Medals 1760-1960 Volume I, pp. 335

Death of George IV