1789 George III Recovers from Illness.

elverno

Madness really, the result of the disease of porphyria. There are at least eight different types of the disease and the King suffered from one of the most severe. For a month in the beginning of 1789 the Prince of Wales was appointed Regent but the King recovered. The Prince also suffered from the disease but it never developed the spectacular symtoms that his father had. The Regency was declared a couple more times until about 1811 when it became permanent. George III hung on for another ten years after that but never again was coherent.



25mm.

BHM 300, BHM says it was normal availability. D&H 937, Dalton & Hamer says it is rare.

Emperor

Smashing! I especially like the scalloped edges.

1jester

Wow!!! That's one super-cool looking medal/token (despite the visage of that sad-looking king)!!! What's the metal?

cosmicdebris

I love those gilt scallopped pieces. I have one of William III

Steve27

Nice medal! I like the abbreviated "restor'd."

MacCrimmon

Very high on the "cool" charts....

Who engraved/struck this piece? Soho?

lordmarcovan

<< <i>Smashing! I especially like the scalloped edges. >>



What he said!

Aethelred

Very sweet, and right up my alley!

1jester

Hello there, Bag-o-Bones!!

Aethelred

Hello Good Sir Mikey!

farthing

Love it!

BTW, Dr. Sriro does not have an example of this token on his CD of tokens which would seem to confirm its rarity.

wybrit

What a fascinating piece. It's also interesting to review the king's bouts with madness.

elverno

The diesinker on this piece, J. Davies, seemed to work mostly with a manufacturer listed as J. Good. There were a couple of other manufacturers as well that he did work for. I really like the scalloped edge pieces and I got this example as a part of a small lot of relatively common brass medals. I had collected another:



a few years ago. The color is pretty accurate and led me to speculate at the time that it might be made of copper, though it isn't listed in that metal.