Two Pound Piece: George III (obverse); St. George and the Dragon (reverse)
after Benedetto Pistrucci (Italian, 1784–1855)
1820
- Medium
- gold
- Classification
- Coins
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 2.9 cm (1 1/8 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 subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
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 very rare piece shows Pistrucci's Saint George as modified by Wyon. In the original the lance is broken; here the lance a been converted by Wyon into a sword, and it has appeared thus in future coinage. Later, in currency issues, the streamer disappears for a time for the helmet.
