fme_858479 - GREAT-BRITAIN - VICTORIA Médaille, Reconstruction et première pierre posée du Royal Exchange de Londres
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Price : 85.00 €
Type : Médaille, Reconstruction et première pierre posée du Royal Exchange de Londres
Date: 1842
Metal : tin
Diameter : 50,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 53,42 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Jolie médaille avec du brillant encore visible. Présence de coups et rayures, quelques unes sont visibles sur la tranche
Obverse
Obverse legend : QUEEN VICTORIA & - PR: ALBERT.
Obverse description : Bustes accolés, en tenue d’apparat, couronné pour la reine, de profil à gauche du couple royal, entouré d’une guirlande de laurier avec les symboles du pouvoir royal à 12 heures (sceptre et couronne sur un coussin) et caducée et trident en sautoir à l’exergue.
Reverse
Reverse legend : FOUNDED BY SIR THOMAS GRESHAM KNT 1566, / OPENED IN STATE AND PROCLAIMED ‘ROYAL EXCHANGE’ / BY Q: ELISABETH 1570, DESTROYED BY THE FIRE 1666 - FIRST STONE OF THE SECOND BUILDING LAID BY / KING CHARLES THE SECOND 1667 / WHICH WAS DESTROYED BY FIRE JAN.Y 10. 1838 // NEW ROYAL EXCHANGE LONDON // À L’EXERGUE : FIRST STONE LAID BY / H. R. H. PRINCE ALBERT / IN THE 5.TH FAR OF THE REIGN OF / H. M. G. M. VICTORIA / JAN.Y 17. 1842.
Reverse description : Légende semi-circulaire et en 5 lignes à l’exergue d’un monument londonien, signé : DAVID BIRM // W TITE ESQ.R F. R. S. F. G. S. & ARCHITECT.
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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