Live auction - fme_959206 - GREAT-BRITAIN - GEORGE VI Médaille de couronnement
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| Estimate : | 60 € |
| Price : | 92 € |
| Maximum bid : | 200 € |
| End of the sale : | 29 October 2024 17:16:47 |
| bidders : | 5 bidders |
Type : Médaille de couronnement
Date: 1937
Metal : silver
Diameter : 32,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver METCALFE Percy (1895-1970)
Weight : 12,20 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Belle patine grise hétérogène, légèrement irisée. Traces de manipulation dans les champs. Aspect Belle Épreuve
Obverse
Obverse legend : CROWNED - MAY 12 1937.
Obverse description : Buste habillé et couronné à gauche du roi Georges VI.
Reverse
Reverse legend : KING AND EMPEROR // DIEV ET MON DROIT.
Reverse description : Blason royal anglais tenu par un lion couronné et une licorne enchaîné.
Commentary
Médaille conservée dans un écrin en cuir rouge à liseré doré gaufré de la couronne anglaise dorée, avec un intérieur en feutrine bleue sombre et une soie blanche timbrée BY APPOINTMENT / SPINK & SON L.TD / 5,6 & 7 KING STREET S.T JAMES’S / LONDON S. W. I..
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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