fme_598358 - GREAT-BRITAIN - VICTORIA Médaillette, Victoria reine et impératrice
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Price : 12.00 €
Type : Médaillette, Victoria reine et impératrice
Date: n.d.
Metal : copper
Diameter : 25,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,40 g.
Edge : lisse
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène. Marques d’usure sur les reliefs. Présence de traces de manipulation
Obverse
Obverse legend : VICTORIA QUEEN - AND EMPRESS.
Obverse description : Buste couronné, le visage tourné à gauche.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Blason couronné entouré d’une couronne d’olivier.
Commentary
Diamètre sans la bélière : 22,5 mm.
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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