fwo_666349 - GREAT-BRITAIN - VICTORIA Demi-souverain Victoria / écu festonné 1887 Londres
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Price : 230.00 €
Type : Demi-souverain Victoria / écu festonné
Date: 1887
Mint name / Town : Londres
Quantity minted : 871770
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 917 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,98 g.
Edge : cannelée
Rarity : R1
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : VICTORIA DEI - GRATIA.
Obverse description : Buste couronné de Victoria à gauche avec une robe d'apparat ; signé J.E.B. en relief sur la tranche du vêtement.
Obverse translation : (Victoria par la grâce de Dieu).
Reverse
Reverse legend : BRITANNIARUM - REGINA FID: DEF:/ 18-87.
Reverse description : Écu festonné, couronné, écartelé aux 1 et 4 d'Angleterre, au 2 d'Écosse et au 3 d'Irlande.
Reverse translation : (Reine des Bretons, défenseur de la Foi).
Historical background
GREAT-BRITAIN - VICTORIA
(20/06/1837-22/01/1901)
Victoria (1819-1901) was the daughter of Edward, Duke of Kent, and granddaughter of George III. She succeeded her uncle Guillaume IV in 1837 and married her cousin Albert, Prince of Saxe-Coburg in 1840, against her mother's advice. She had nine children by him but became a widow in 1861. While respecting the rules of the parliamentary system, she tried to impose her views in the field of foreign affairs. Her favourite, Disraeli, had her given the title of Empress of India in 1876. Respected and loved, active and authoritarian, Victoria appeared in her time as the symbol of imperialist England. His reign marks the height of British power.
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