fme_889982 - GREAT-BRITAIN - VICTORIA Médaille, Édification de la Wellington Statue
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Type : Médaille, Édification de la Wellington Statue
Date: 1844
Metal : tin
Diameter : 38,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 18,28 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Patine grise hétérogène, présentant des coups et rayures, en particulier à l’avers. De l’usure sur les reliefs. Des coups sur la tranche
Obverse
Obverse legend : ARTHUR DUKE OF - WELLINGTON.
Obverse description : Tête nue de profil à gauche. Signé : ALLEN MOORE.
Reverse
Reverse legend : THE WELLINGTON STATUE - LONDON - ERECTED JUNE 18 1844 // À L’EXERGUE : COST L 9000 RAISED BY / PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION / THE METAL / WORTH L 1500 GIVEN BY GOVERNMENT.
Reverse description : Représentation de la statue de Wellington à cheval, de profil à droite.
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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