fme_662030 - GREAT-BRITAIN - VICTORIA Médaille, Exposition internationale
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Type : Médaille, Exposition internationale
Date: 1862
Mint name / Town : UK, Londres
Metal : copper
Diameter : 41,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 40,83 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire percé à 12 heures sur la tranche
Obverse
Obverse legend : EUROPE / ASIA / AFRICA / AMERICA / AUSTRALIA.
Obverse description : Allégories féminines assises, chacune tenant un drapeau, des navires à l’arrière plan. Divers objets symbolisant les arts et l’industrie. Signé à l’exergue : PINCHES LONDON.
Reverse
Reverse legend : INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION // WEST FRONT // À L’EXERGUE : OPENED MAY 1.ST / MDCCCLXII.
Reverse description : Vue sur la façade du monument.
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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