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United Kingdom, George IV, 1827 Sovereign Scarce NGC AU 58

Condition
NGC About Uncirculated 58. Some wear and handling marks indicated by grade. Attractive, with underlying lustre. Scarce.
Obverse
Bare head left; date below; · GEORGIUS IV DEI GRATIA · [George IV, by the grace of God].
Reverse
Crowned Royal shield; BRITANNIARUM REX FID: DEF: [King of Britain, defender of the faith].
Edge
Milled.
Our Price:
£1,950.00
Weight
approx. 7.98 g
Diameter
approx. 22 mm
Metal
gold
Fineness
22 carat (91.67%)
Fine weight
7.33 g (0.258 oz t)
Production method
milled
Alignment
coin ↑↓
Mint
The Royal Mint
Designer
obv.: Francis Leggatt Chantrey (1781-1841)
rev.: Johann B. Merlen (1769-1850)
Engraver
obv.: William Wyon (1795-1851)
rev.: Johann B. Merlen (1769-1850)
Mintage
2,266,629 [calendar]
General References
Fr.377; KM.696; Marsh.12 [S]; MCE.478; S.3801
Collection References
Bentley.20
Certification number
#6614520-005
NGC Census in this grade: 17.
NGC Census in higher grade: 21
Total NGC Census: 89

George IV (1762-1830)

George IV was the personification of the decadent Regency period. Although the technical span of his reign was from 1820 to 1830, he had been in control of the country since early 1811 when his father’s debilitations forced a retirement in all practical senses. George, as Prince Regent, led (or was supposed to lead) the country through the Napoleonic Wars and 1816, and The Year Without a Summer - when one of the most violent volcanic eruptions in 1,300 years plunged half of the world into a false winter with very real consequences. Nothing grew. And as such poverty was rampant. The tastes of the Prince however became more and more repugnant in their resplendence, growing almost as quickly as the public’s resentment of their deluded and gluttonous leader. Civil unrest bubbled and foamed only to be crushed with new, authoritarian laws such as the death penalty for unlicensed public meetings. Parliament agreed to clear the Prince’s debts if he would take a wife; which he did, only to disown and treat her with the cruel and cold brutality he had become so accustomed to.

With his coronation, this story only continued. King George IV fiercely fought parliamentary reform while defending religious intolerance. Towards the end of his life, ashamed of his bloated physical appearance and diminished public appeal, the King eschewed public life and preferred to live his hedonism in private. He died in 1830, deranged, grossly overweight and a laughingstock.

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