v16_1946 - GREAT-BRITAIN - VICTORIA Two Pounds (double souverain), vieille tête 1893 Londres
MONNAIES 16 (2002)
Starting price : 600.00 €
Estimate : 900.00 €
Realised price : 600.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 615.00 €
Starting price : 600.00 €
Estimate : 900.00 €
Realised price : 600.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 615.00 €
Type : Two Pounds (double souverain), vieille tête
Date: 1893
Mint name / Town : Londres
Quantity minted : 52212
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 917 ‰
Diameter : 28 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 15,97 g.
Edge : cannelée
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Très légères traces de manipulation et de circulation. Belle frappe. La pièce garde l’essentiel de son brillant de frappe
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : VICTORIA. DEI. GRA - BRITT. REGINA. FID. DEF. - IND. IMP..
Obverse description : Buste couronné de Victoria âgée à gauche, voilée avec une robe d'apparat ; au-dessous signature T.B..
Obverse translation : (Victoria, par la grâce de Dieu, Reine des Bretons, défenseur de la Foi, impératrice des Indes).
Reverse
Reverse legend : À L'EXERGUE : 1893.
Reverse description : Saint Georges à cheval bondissant à droite, casqué, nu, le manteau flottant sur l'épaule, terrassant le dragon ; signé B.P..
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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