GEORGE IV 4th ANTIQUE FARTHING COIN DATED 1826 19THC

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Antique Farthing Copper Coin From The Reign Of British King George 1v 4th, Dated 1826 Please judge the condition from the pictures as I do not grade my coins. A true piece of history now 185 years old. George, the eldest son of George III , was born in 1762. George rebelled against his father's strict discipline. At the age of eighteen he became involved with an actress, Mrs. Perdita Robinson. This was followed by a relationship with Lady Melbourne. The Prince of Wales also rebelled against his father's political views. Whereas George III preferred Tory ministers, George, Prince of Wales, was friendly with the Whigs, Charles Fox and Richard Sheridan . In 1784 the Prince of Wales, met a fell in love with Mrs. Maria Fitzherbert, a Roman Catholic . Fitzherbert refused to become his mistress and eventually George agreed to marry her. The marriage was kept a secret as under the terms of 1772 Royal Marriages Act, it was illegal for a member of the royal family to marry a Roman Catholic . By the 1780s the Prince of Wales had become a gambler, a womanizer and a heavy drinker. He was deeply in debt and when Parliament agreed to increase his allowance, George III remarked that it was "a shameful squandering of public money to gratify the passions of an ill-advised young man." The Prince of Wales continued to overspend and my 1795 he had read more

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