Live auction - fme_1176959 - GREAT-BRITAIN - GEORGE VI Médaille, Ordre de Saint Jean de Jérusalem
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Live starting : Type : Médaille, Ordre de Saint Jean de Jérusalem
Date: 1926
Metal : silver
Diameter : 50,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 35,41 g.
Edge : gravée : 500. C. V. GOONERATNE CEYLON POLICE CPS. S. J. A. B. O. 1926.
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Aspect nettoyé. De l’usure sur les reliefs. Quelques rayures
Obverse
Obverse legend : (FLEURON) VICTORIA (FLEUR) D (FLEUR) G (FLEUR) BRITT (FLEUR) REG (FLEUR) F (FLEUR) D (FLEUR) IND (FLEUR) IMP.
Obverse description : Buste couronné, habillé et drapé, de la reine Victoria, de profil à droite.
Reverse
Reverse legend : SANCTI. JOHANNIS. JERUSALEM. UN. ANGLIA-MAGNUS. PRIORATUS. ORDINIS. HOSPITALIS. // HONI. SOIT. QUI. MAL. Y. PENSE.
Reverse description : Blason ceint d’une ceinture, accosté de quatre symboles : couronne, blason de l’ordre hospitalier, couronne de Galle, second blason de l’ordre hospitalier.
Commentary
Médaille décernée à C. V. Gooneratne, n°500, de la Police de Ceylan, St John Ambulance Brigade Overseas (SJABO)
Diamètre sans bélière : 38,5 mm.
Diamètre sans bélière : 38,5 mm.
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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