Brunswick-Luneburg ca. 1710 George Louis (George I of Great Britain). Silver Medal. AU+ (faint hairlines)

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1710, Brunswick-Luneburg, George Louis (George I of Great Britain). Silver Medal.

Mint Year: ca. 1710
Denomination: Medal
Medallist: E. Hannibal
Reference: Brockmann 832.
Condition: Faint hairlines in fields, otherwise a nice AU+ medal with reflective fields!
Material: Silver
Weight: 20.78gm
Diameter: 37mm


Obverse: Draped bust of George Louis (after 1914 he became George I, King of the United Kingdom) as Duke & Elector of Brunswick & Luneburg right. Medallist´s signature E.H. below.
Legend: GEORG . LVD . D . G . DVX . BR . & LVN . S . R . I . ARCHITH & EL / EL .

Reverse: Giant column, flanked by clouds, standing firm in landscape. Motto in latin ("Honor in doing right.") above.
Legend: IN RECTO DECUS.



The House of Hanover (the Hanoverians) is a Germanic royal dynasty which has ruled the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg (German: Braunschweig-Lüneburg), the Kingdom of Hanover and the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland. It succeeded the House of Stuart as monarchs of Great Britain and Ireland in 1714 and held that office until the death of Victoria in 1901. They are sometimes referred to as the House of Brunswick and Lüneburg, Hanover line. The House of Hanover is a younger branch of the House of Welf, which in turn is the senior branch of the House of Este, with all three being offshoots of the ancient Saxon House of Wettin.

Queen Victoria was the granddaughter of George III, and was a descendant of most major European royal houses. She arranged marriages for her children and grandchildren across the continent, tying Europe together; this earned her the nickname "the grandmother of Europe." She was the last British monarch of the House of Hanover; her son King Edward VII belonged to the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha since she could not inherit the German kingdom and duchies under Salic law. Those possessions passed to the next eligible male heir, her uncle Ernest Augustus I of Hanover, the Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale—the fifth son of George III. In the United Kingdom, after World War I, King George V changed the house's name from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to the currently serving House of Windsor in 1917. Both dynastic names are offshoots of the 800-plus years old House of Wettin.



George I (George Louis; German: Georg Ludwig; 28 May 1660 – 11 June 1727) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1 August 1714 until his death, and ruler of the Duchy and Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) in the Holy Roman Empire from 1698.

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