Live auction - fwo_747868 - GREAT BRITAIN - GEORGE III Boîte de forçat réalisée à partir d’une monnaie de 2 Pence 1797 Soho
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| Estimate : | 100 € |
| Price : | 72 € |
| Maximum bid : | 76 € |
| End of the sale : | 26 July 2022 19:37:05 |
| bidders : | 4 bidders |
Type : Boîte de forçat réalisée à partir d’une monnaie de 2 Pence
Date: 1797
Mint name / Town : Soho
Quantity minted : 722100
Metal : copper
Diameter : 41 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 33,44 g.
Edge : lisse
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : GEORGIUS III·D:G·REX..
Obverse description : Portrait lauré à droite du roi Georges III.
Reverse
Reverse legend : BRITTANIA // 1797.
Reverse description : Figure assise à gauche de Britannia.
Commentary
Ces boîtes dite de forçats permettaient de cacher une pièce d’or ou d’argent dans une modeste pièce de cuivre.
These so-called convict boxes allowed you to hide a gold or silver coin in a modest copper coin.
These so-called convict boxes allowed you to hide a gold or silver coin in a modest copper coin.
Historical background
GREAT BRITAIN - GEORGE III
(25/10/1760-29/01/1820)
Georges III (4/06/1738-29/01/1820) is the grandson of Georges II, whom he succeeded in 1760, and the son of Frédéric-Louis (1707-1751), Prince of Wales and Augusta of Saxony-Gotha. He married Charlotte, daughter of Charles Louis Frédéric of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, on September 8, 1761 and was crowned on the 22nd. Suffering from increasingly pronounced fits of dementia, his son Georges IV had to assume the regency from 1810. Georges III is the first truly English King of the Hanoverian dynasty. He won the Seven Years' War (1756-1763, Treaty of Paris). He lost the colonies in North America (1775-1783, Treaty of Versailles 1783). He fights against the revolution and is the enemy of Napoleon I. Crazy, he died in 1820 two years after Charlotte.
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