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Live auction - fme_965763 - GREAT-BRITAIN - VICTORIA Médaille, Duc de Wellington

GREAT-BRITAIN - VICTORIA Médaille, Duc de Wellington AU
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Type : Médaille, Duc de Wellington
Date: 1852
Mint name / Town : UK, Birmingham
Metal : tin
Diameter : 51,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver ALLEN & MORE - Birmingham
Weight : 39,20 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Traces de nettoyage. Restes de brillant dans les champs. Présence de quelques coups et rayures

Obverse


Obverse legend : ARTHUR DUKE OF - WELLINGTON.
Obverse description : Buste à gauche du duc de Wellington.

Reverse


Reverse legend : BRITANNIA MOURNS HER HERO NOW AT REST // WATERLOO / .
Reverse description : Monument funéraire, inscrit “Wellington / born / may 1869 / died / Sepr 14. 1852”.

Commentary


Le titre de duc de Wellington est le titre le plus ancien de pairie du Royaume-Uni. Il a été créé en 1814 pour Arthur Wellesley, le futur vainqueur de la bataille de Waterloo, d'après la ville de Wellington dans le Somerset.
Arthur Wellesley (30 avril 1769, Dangan Castle, dans le comté de Meath, Irlande – Walmer, dans le Kent, 14 septembre 1852), 1er comte, puis marquis, puis duc de Wellington, est un aristocrate anglo-irlandais devenu soldat et homme politique britannique.
Il est principalement connu en tant que vainqueur de Napoléon à Waterloo. Il est souvent comparé à John Churchill, duc de Marlborough, avec qui il partage de nombreux points communs, en particulier d’être devenu une figure politique après avoir réalisé une grande carrière militaire..

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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