Live auction - fme_1124352 - GREAT-BRITAIN - VICTORIA Médaille, Exposition internationale de l’Invention
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Live starting : Type : Médaille, Exposition internationale de l’Invention
Date: 1885
Metal : copper
Diameter : 45,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver WYON Leonard Charles (1826-1891)
Weight : 52,09 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Belle patine marron, légèrement irisée. présence de quelques fines rayures
Catalogue references :
Eimer.1715 - BHM3198
Obverse
Obverse legend : VICTORIA - REGINA.
Obverse description : Tête couronnée et coiffée d’un voile, de profil à gauche, signé sur le tranché du cou : L. C. WYON.
Reverse
Reverse legend : IN - VENTION - MVSIC // 1885 / INTERNATIONAL / INVENTIONS / EXHIBITION.
Reverse description : Allégorie masculine tenant un compas d’une main et une branche de laurier de l’autre, assis sur un cartouche, dos-à-dos avec une allégorie féminine drapée à l’antique, tenant une lyre.
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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