fme_615514 - GREAT-BRITAIN - VICTORIA Médaille, Couronnement de Victoria
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Price : 130.00 €
Type : Médaille, Couronnement de Victoria
Date: 1838
Mint name / Town : UK, Londres
Metal : tin
Diameter : 64 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 81,7 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire présentant encore une bonne partie de son brillant de frappe. Légers frottements dans les champs, en particulier à l’avers. Présence de quelques coups et rayures
Obverse
Obverse legend : VICTORIA D: G: BRITANNIAR: REGINA F: D..
Obverse description : Tête à gauche de la reine Victori.
Reverse
Reverse legend : H. M. G. MAJESTY VICTORIA // BORN MAY 24TH 1824. ASCENDED THE BRITISH THRONE JUNE 20TH 1837 // CROWNED / JUNE 28TH 1838.
Reverse description : Scène du couronnement de la reine Victoria.
Commentary
Médaille signée Davis Birm.
Victoria fêta ses 18 ans le 24 mai 1837, âge qui lui permettait de régner seule. L'épouvantail d'une régence - politiquement toujours instable - se dissipait. Le roi Guillaume IV mourut à l'âge de 71 ans et Victoria devint reine du Royaume-Uni un mois plus tard le 20 juin 1837.
Au moment de son accession au trône, le gouvernement était mené par le premier ministre whig Lord Melbourne et ce dernier exerça une influence importante sur la reine politiquement inexpérimentée. L'écrivain Charles Greville suggère que Lord Melbourne, veuf et sans enfants, « était aussi attaché à elle que si elle avait été sa fille » et Victoria le considérait probablement comme une figure paternelle. Son couronnement fut organisé le 28 juin 1838 et elle devint le premier souverain à résider au palais de Buckingham. Elle hérita des revenus des duchés de Lancastre et de Cornouailles et reçut une liste civile annuelle de 385 000 £ (28,5 millions de livres de 2011). Financièrement prudente, elle remboursa les dettes de son père....
Medal signed Davis Birm. Victoria celebrated her 18th birthday on 24 May 1837, the age at which she could reign alone. The spectre of a regency—always politically unstable—was dissipating. King William IV died at the age of 71, and Victoria became Queen of the United Kingdom a month later on 20 June 1837. At the time of her accession, the government was led by the Whig Prime Minister Lord Melbourne, and he exerted significant influence over the politically inexperienced Queen. The writer Charles Greville suggests that Lord Melbourne, a widower and childless, “was as attached to her as if she had been his daughter,” and Victoria likely regarded him as a father figure. Her coronation took place on 28 June 1838, and she became the first sovereign to reside at Buckingham Palace. She inherited the income from the Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall and received an annual civil list of £385,000 (£28.5 million in 2011). Financially prudent, she repaid her father's debts...
Victoria fêta ses 18 ans le 24 mai 1837, âge qui lui permettait de régner seule. L'épouvantail d'une régence - politiquement toujours instable - se dissipait. Le roi Guillaume IV mourut à l'âge de 71 ans et Victoria devint reine du Royaume-Uni un mois plus tard le 20 juin 1837.
Au moment de son accession au trône, le gouvernement était mené par le premier ministre whig Lord Melbourne et ce dernier exerça une influence importante sur la reine politiquement inexpérimentée. L'écrivain Charles Greville suggère que Lord Melbourne, veuf et sans enfants, « était aussi attaché à elle que si elle avait été sa fille » et Victoria le considérait probablement comme une figure paternelle. Son couronnement fut organisé le 28 juin 1838 et elle devint le premier souverain à résider au palais de Buckingham. Elle hérita des revenus des duchés de Lancastre et de Cornouailles et reçut une liste civile annuelle de 385 000 £ (28,5 millions de livres de 2011). Financièrement prudente, elle remboursa les dettes de son père....
Medal signed Davis Birm. Victoria celebrated her 18th birthday on 24 May 1837, the age at which she could reign alone. The spectre of a regency—always politically unstable—was dissipating. King William IV died at the age of 71, and Victoria became Queen of the United Kingdom a month later on 20 June 1837. At the time of her accession, the government was led by the Whig Prime Minister Lord Melbourne, and he exerted significant influence over the politically inexperienced Queen. The writer Charles Greville suggests that Lord Melbourne, a widower and childless, “was as attached to her as if she had been his daughter,” and Victoria likely regarded him as a father figure. Her coronation took place on 28 June 1838, and she became the first sovereign to reside at Buckingham Palace. She inherited the income from the Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall and received an annual civil list of £385,000 (£28.5 million in 2011). Financially prudent, she repaid her father's debts...
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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