fme_915864 - GREAT-BRITAIN - VICTORIA Médaille, Royal naval exhibition
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Price : 50.00 €
Type : Médaille, Royal naval exhibition
Date: 1891
Metal : tin
Diameter : 38 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 17,61 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Des traces de frottement sont visibles dans les champs. Des petits coups et des rayures sont également visibles sur l’ensemble de la médaille
Obverse
Obverse legend : H.M.S. VICTORY / 1805 / H.M.S. CAMPERDOWN / 1891.
Obverse description : Deux navires de part et d’autre d’un phare.
Reverse
Reverse legend : IN / COMMEMORATION / OF THE / ROYAL NAVAL / EXHIBITION / - / PATRON / H.M.THE QUEEN / - / 1891.
Reverse description : Légende en 8 lignes dans une couronne de chêne et de laurier.
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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