Cleveland Museum of Art
Five Pound Piece: George IV (obverse); Shield of Arms (reverse)
Jean Baptiste Merlen
- Date
- 1826
- Medium
- gold
- Culture
- England, George IV, 1820-1830
- Department
- Medieval Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Only pattern five-pound pieces were struck during the reign of George IV, none being put into circulation. In this reign, specimen proof sets appeared for the first time in 1823, and the pattern five- and two-pound pieces as well as the pattern silver crown were included in the sets. The shield is quartered with the arms of England (1 & 4), Scotland (2), and Ireland (3) with the crowned arms of the Duchy of Brunswick and Lüneburg at the center.
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