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6 & 7 April 2021

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Lot

№ 1267

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7 April 2021

Hammer Price:
£5,500

GERMANY, Georg August, Electoral Prince of Brunswick-Calenburg-Hanover, 1701, a gold medal by R. Faltz, armoured bust right, rev. the Schloss Herrenhausen, Hanover, fountain in foreground, mountains in background, 50mm, 87.16g (Brockmann 860; Steguweit 60; Knyphausen 3198; Knigge 3239; BDM II, 69). Heavily scuffed, rim nicks and reverse edge knock at 3 o’clock, otherwise very fine, pierced for suspension and with contemporary gold loop, extremely rare; in original black shagreen case £6,000-£8,000

Provenance: From an old Irish collection.

Prince George August (1683-1760), later King George II and Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, the last British monarch born outside England, gained the title of Electoral Prince on his 18th birthday, 9 November 1701. The British Act of Settlement, passed five months earlier, positioned his grandmother, the Electress Sophia of Hanover (1630-1714), and her Protestant descendants to inherit the British throne