Live auction - fwo_612165 - GREAT-BRITAIN - GEORGE VI 5 Pounds (5 souverains) Proof 1937 Londres
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| Estimate : | 5 500 € |
| Price : | 4 100 € |
| Maximum bid : | 6 325 € |
| End of the sale : | 08 September 2020 18:43:55 |
| bidders : | 4 bidders |
Type : 5 Pounds (5 souverains) Proof
Date: 1937
Mint name / Town : Londres
Quantity minted : 5500
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 917 ‰
Diameter : 36 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 39,95 g.
Edge : lisse
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
L’exemplaire présente des traces de manipulation de part et d’autre
Obverse
Obverse legend : GEORGIVS VI D: G: BR: OMN: REX F: D: IND: IMP:.
Obverse description : Tête nue de Georges Vi à gauche ; signé HP au-dessous.
Obverse translation : (Édouard VII par la grâce de Dieu, roi de tous les Bretons, défenseur de la Foi, empereur des Indes).
Reverse
Reverse legend : À L'EXERGUE : 1937.
Reverse description : Saint-Georges à cheval bondissant à droite, casqué, nu, le manteau flottant sur l'épaule, terrassant le dragon ; signé B.P..
Commentary
La pièce de cinq livres est seulement frappée en 1937. Elle est en frappe Proof avec la tranche lisse.
Historical background
GREAT-BRITAIN - GEORGE VI
(11/12/1936-6/02/1952)
Georges VI (14/12/1895-6/02/1952) is the youngest son of Georges V and Mary de Treck. He is the brother of Edward VIII who succeeded Georges V on January 20, 1936, but who was forced to abdicate the same year because he decided to marry Mrs Wallis Warfield Simpson, twice divorced, and because his Germanophilia displeases strongly to power circles in England. George VI has two daughters, Elisabeth and Margaret. During the Second World War, he was the symbol of English resistance to Nazism. After the war, in 1947 he had to ratify the independence of the Indian Empire which, after a horrible civil war, was divided to form India and Pakistan. He died of cancer in 1952.
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