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Live auction - fme_518481 - GREAT-BRITAIN - GEORGE VI Médaille de couronnement, Georges VI et Élisabeth

GREAT-BRITAIN - GEORGE VI Médaille de couronnement, Georges VI et Élisabeth MS
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Estimate : 8 000 €
Price : no bid
Maximum bid : no bid
End of the sale : 05 March 2019 18:39:43
Type : Médaille de couronnement, Georges VI et Élisabeth
Date: 1937
Metal : gold
Diameter : 56,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver Percy Metcalfe
Weight : 116,4 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Cet exemplaire est nettoyé présentant des frottements dans les champs. Présence de coups et rayures, entre autre sur les lèvres du souverain
Catalogue references :
Eimer2046a  - BHM4314  - RCM.77000A5
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection R.P.

Obverse


Obverse legend : GEORGE VI CROWNED - 12 MAY 1937.
Obverse description : Buste habillé et couronné à gauche du roi Georges VI, signé : PM.

Reverse


Reverse legend : QUEEN ELIZABETH - 12 MAY 1937.
Reverse description : Buste habillé et couronné à gauche de la reine Élisabeth, signé : PM.

Commentary


Exemplaire Proof et réalisé par Percy Metcalfe.

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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