Two Guinea Piece: George III (obverse); Shield of Arms (reverse)
designed by John Sigismund Tanner (British, 1705–1775)
1773
- Medium
- gold
- Classification
- Coins
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 3.2 cm (1 1/4 in.)
- Culture
- England, George III, 1760-1820
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Medieval Art
- Credit line
- The Norweb Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This very rare piece is another example of the fine patterns being produced at this period. With the coming reform of the coinage, the five- and two-guinea pieces do not appear again for general circulation. John Sigismund Tanner came to England in 1728, was appointed chief engraver in 1741 and died in 1775. He was responsible for a large number of pattern coins and for most of the second "old head" type of currency coins issued during the reign of George II.
