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Cleveland Museum of Art
modern coins
Sovereign: George III (obverse); St. George and the Dragon (Cleveland Museum of Art 1969.212)
1817
Great changes had occurred since King George III's previous coinage. The Royal Mint had moved out of the Tower of London to new premises in Little Tower Hill. The new mint was fitted with the latest steam-driven machinery by Boulton and Watt, and the whole coinage had been reformed. The guinea of twenty-one shilling…
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Cleveland Museum of Art
modern coins
Two Pound Piece: George III (obverse); St. George and the Dragon (Cleveland Museum of Art 1969.213)
1820
The five- and two-pound pieces struck for George III were only struck as patterns in this, the last year of the his reign. No pieces of either denomination were put into circulation. This piece shows Pistrucci's Saint George as modified by Wyon. In the original the lance is broken; here the lance a been converted by…
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