GEORGE II AND THE ROYAL FAMILY, 1732 SILVER LARGE SIZE RARE MEDAL

GEORGE II AND THE ROYAL FAMILY, 1732 SILVER LARGE SIZE RARE MEDAL

Code: 11071

£7,750.00
 

George II and the Royal Family Silver Medal, Struck 1732, by J. Croker (obverse) and J.S. Tanner (reverse).
Obverse: GEORGIVS • II • REX • ET • CAROLINA • REGINA •, Draped busts face to face, the King armoured, MDCCXXII in exergue.
Reverse: FELICITAS • IMPERII, Busts of the seven royal children, FREDERICVS P: WALLIAE. GVLIELMVS. D: CVMBRIAE. ANNA. AMELIA. CAROLINA. MARIA. LVDOVICA. PRINCIPES. All within exergue, in six lines.
Edge plain.
69 mm in diameter, 117.13 grams.
Eimer 528; MI ii 500/47; Woolf 44; Harding 62 This medal.
A couple of minor surface marks/nail marks, otherwise all the portraits with the most pleasing details, lustrous and with an attractive grey cabinet toning, extremely fine and very rare, especially so in this grade.

The medal was struck by order of King George II for presentation to foreign dignitaries, the medal represents the Hanoverian response to the Stuart families claim to succession.

Provenance: 
EX. A.H. Baldwin & Sons, Auction 68, 28th September 2010, lot (3015). Described as extremely fine with a light grey tone.