fwo_423425 - CANADA - GEORGE VI Essai de frappe 10 Cents Laiton 1937 -

MS63

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Type : Essai de frappe 10 Cents Laiton

Date: 1937

Mint name / Town : -

Metal : brass

Diameter : 18,30 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 2,47 g.

Edge : striée

Rarity : R3

Slab

PCGS : SP63

Coments on the condition:

Quelques taches d’oxydation et traces de manipulation. La monnaie est sous coque PCGS SP63

Catalogue references :

KM20/TS7

Obverse

Obverse legend : GEORGIVS VI D:G/REX ET IND:IMP:.

Obverse description : Portrait à gauche du Roi Georges VI.

Reverse

Reverse legend : CANADA // 10 CENTS.

Reverse description : voilier et date 1937 dans le champ.

Commentary

Il s’agit d’essai de frappe en laiton destinée à remplacer les monnaies de circulation de 5 Cents en nickel, de 10 et 25 Cents en argent. Le laiton ne fut pas adopté pour ces valeurs faciales.

Historical background

CANADA - GEORGE VI

(12/05/1937-6/02/1952)

Georges VI (14/12/1895-6/02/1952) is the youngest son of Georges V and Mary de Treck. He is the brother of Edward VIII who succeeded George V on January 20, 1936, but who was forced to abdicate on December 11 of the same year because he had decided to marry Mrs Wallis Warfield Simpson, who had been divorced twice, and because that his Germanophilia strongly displeased the circles of power in England. Georges VI was crowned on May 12, 1837. He had two daughters, Elisabeth and Margaret. During the Second World War, it became the symbol of English resistance to Nazism. After the war, in 1947 he had to ratify the independence of the Indian Empire which, after a horrible civil war, was divided to form India and Pakistan. He died of cancer in 1952.