fme_505833 - GREAT-BRITAIN - GEORGE VI Médaille, couronnement de George VI
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Item sold on our e-shop (2021)
Price : 70.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2021)
Price : 70.00 €
Type : Médaille, couronnement de George VI
Date: 1937
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 44 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 43,71 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Patine sombre. Petite usure. Présence de coups et rayures
Obverse
Obverse legend : CORONATION OF KING GEORGE VI - & QUEEN ELIZABETH.
Obverse description : Bustes accolés à gauche du roi George VI et de sa femme Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon; à droite : 12 MAY / 1937.
Reverse
Reverse legend : CROWNED .:. - .:.A. D. 1937. .
Reverse description : Femme drapée à l’antique tenant la couronne royale dans sa main droite et le drapeau de l’Angleterre dans sa main gauche.
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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