v11_2350 - GREAT-BRITAIN - GEORGE VI Coffret 1937 ou “Proof set”, 15 monnaies 1937 Londres
MONNAIES 11 (2002)
Starting price : 190.56 €
Estimate : 381.12 €
Realised price : 190.56 €
Starting price : 190.56 €
Estimate : 381.12 €
Realised price : 190.56 €
Type : Coffret 1937 ou “Proof set”, 15 monnaies
Date: 1937
Mint name / Town : Londres
Quantity minted : 26402
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Edge : cannelée ou lisse
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Présenté dans un coffret rouge inscrit SPECIMEN COINS 1937
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : GEORGIVS VI D: G: BR: OMN: REX.
Obverse description : Tête nue de Georges VI à gauche ; signé MP sous le cou.
Obverse translation : (Georges VI par la grâce de Dieu roi de tous les Bretons).
Reverse
Reverse description : Revers variés.
Commentary
La boîte comprend les pièces d’une couronne, demi-couronne, un florin, un shilling écossais, un shilling anglais, six pence, trois pence en argent et en bronze-alu, un penny, un demi-penny et un quart de penny en cuivre et le ”maundy set” soit 4, 3, 2 et 1 d..
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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