1815 CEYLON now SRI LANKA UK King George III Old 2 Stivers Coin ELEPHANT i113250

Description

Item:
i113250
Authentic Coin of:
Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)
George  III
- King: 25 October 1760 - 29 January  1820
1815 Copper 2 Stivers
34mm
(16.94 grams)
Reference: KM# 82 (1815)
CEYLON TWO STIVERS 1815, Elephant facing left.Laureate bust facing right.
GEORGIUS III BRITANNIA RUM REX, George facing right.
You are bidding on the exact item pictured, provided with a Certificate of Authenticity and Lifetime Guarantee of  Authenticity.
George III
(George William Frederick; 4 June 1738 - 29 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death. He was concurrently Duke and prince-elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg ("Hanover") in the Holy Roman Empire before becoming King of Hanover on 12 October 1814. He was the third British monarch of the House of Hanover, but unlike his two predecessors, he was born in England, spoke English as his first language, and never visited Hanover.
His life and with it his reign, which were longer than those of any of his predecessors, were marked by a series of military conflicts involving his kingdoms, much of the rest of Europe, and places farther afield in Africa, the Americas and Asia. Early in his reign, Great Britain defeated France in the Seven Years' War, becoming the dominant European power in North America and India. However, many of Britain's American colonies were soon lost in the American War of Independence. Further wars against revolutionary and Napoleonic France from 1793 concluded in the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
In the later part of his life, George III had recurrent, and eventually permanent, mental illness. Although it has since been suggested that he had the blood disease porphyria, the cause of his illness remains unknown. After a final relapse in 1810, a regency was established, and George III's eldest son, George, Prince of Wales, ruled as Prince Regent. On George III's death, the Prince Regent succeeded his father as George IV.
Historical analysis of George III's life has gone through a "kaleidoscope of changing views" that have depended heavily on the prejudices of his biographers and the sources available to them. Until it was reassessed in the second half of the 20th century, his reputation in the United States was one of a tyrant; and in Britain he became "the scapegoat for the failure of imperialism".
Sri  Lanka
, officially the
Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
,  is an
island country
in
South Asia
near south-east
India
. Sri Lanka has maritime borders with
India
to the northwest and the
Maldives
to the southwest.
Sri  Lanka's documented history spans 3,000 years, with evidence of pre-historic  human settlements dating back to at least 125,000 years. Its geographic location  and deep harbours made it of great strategic importance from the time of the  ancient
Silk Road
through to
World War II
. Sri Lanka was known from the
beginning of British colonial rule
until 1972 as
Ceylon
. Sri Lanka's recent history has been marred by a thirty-year
civil war
which decisively ended when the Sri  Lankan military defeated the
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
in 2009.
A diverse and multicultural country, Sri Lanka is home to many religions,  ethnic groups, and languages. In addition to the majority
Sinhalese
, it is home to large groups of
Sri Lankan
and
Indian Tamils
,
Moors
,
Burghers
,
Malays
,
Kaffirs
and the aboriginal
Vedda
. Sri Lanka has a rich Buddhist heritage,  and the first known
Buddhist
writings of Sri Lanka, the
Pāli Canon
, dates back to the
Fourth Buddhist council
in 29 BC.
Sri Lanka is a
republic
and a
unitary state
governed by a
semi-presidential system
. The
legislative capital
,
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
, is a suburb of the  commercial capital and largest city,
Colombo
.
Sri Lanka has had a long history of international engagement, as a founding  member of the
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
(SAARC), and a member of the
United Nations
, the
Commonwealth of Nations
, the
G77
, and the
Non-Aligned Movement
. Along with the Maldives,  Sri Lanka is one of the two countries in South Asia that are currently rated  among high human development on the
Human Development Index
.
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