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Live auction - fme_864005 - GREAT-BRITAIN - GEORGE VI Médaille, couronnement de George VI, transformée en écuelle
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| Estimate : | 200 € |
| Price : | 100 € |
| Maximum bid : | 110 € |
| End of the sale : | 24 October 2023 19:09:06 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Médaille, couronnement de George VI, transformée en écuelle
Date: 1937
Metal : silver
Diameter : 98 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 135,38 g.
Edge : stries horizontales + corne BRONZE
Puncheon : corne BRONZE
Coments on the condition:
Objet nettoyé, des frottements bien visibles à l’avers. Le revers est en bel état, du brillant visible au revers
Obverse
Obverse legend : KING. GEORGE. VI. AND. QUEEN. ELIZABETH.
Obverse description : Bustes couronnés accolés à gauche du roi George VI et de sa femme Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. Signé : PINCHES LONDON.
Reverse
Reverse legend : TO - COMMEMORATE. THE. CORONATION IN / WESTMINSTER - ABBEY - MAY. 12.TH. 1937.
Reverse description : Double légende circulaire autour d’une couronne posé sur les instruments du pouvoir disposés en sautoir sur une fleur à 5 pétales. Gravure malhabile : 4756.
Commentary
Poinçons sur le rebord : poinçon triangulaire + ancre + lion à gauche + M.
Exemplaire conservé dans un écrin en cuir rouge, avec feutrine bleue marine et soie blanche.
Exemplaire conservé dans un écrin en cuir rouge, avec feutrine bleue marine et soie blanche.
Historical background
GREAT-BRITAIN - GEORGE VI
(11/12/1936-6/02/1952)
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 Georges V on January 20, 1936, but who was forced to abdicate the same year because he decided to marry Mrs Wallis Warfield Simpson, twice divorced, and because his Germanophilia displeases strongly to power circles in England. George VI has two daughters, Elisabeth and Margaret. During the Second World War, he was 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.
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