fwo_865549 - GREAT-BRITAIN - VICTORIA 1 Shilling Victoria buste du jubilé 1889
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Type : 1 Shilling Victoria buste du jubilé
Date: 1889
Quantity minted : 7040000
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 925 ‰
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 5,66 g.
Edge : cannelée
Obverse
Obverse legend : VICTORIA DEI GRATIA - BRITT: REGINA F: D:.
Obverse description : Buste couronné de Victoria à gauche avec une robe d'apparat ; signé J.E.B. en relief sur la tranche du vêtement.
Reverse
Reverse legend : HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE / 1889.
Reverse description : écu couronné du Royaume-Uni.
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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