Bronze commemorative medal: Queen Victoria (1819-1901)
Category
Coins and medals
Date
1897
Materials
Bronze, Leather
Measurements
15 x 86 x 3 mm; 55 mm (Diameter)
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1340031.1
Summary
One of two bronze commemorative medallions celebrating the 60 years of Queen Victoria's reign. The obverse showing aged queen in 1897 with inscription "VICTORIA ANNUM REGINI SEXAGESIMUM FELICITER CLAUDIT XX 1UN. MDCCCXCVII". The reverse showing a young queen in 1837 with inscription "LONGITUDO DIERUM IN DEXTERER GIUS ET IN SINISTRA GLORIA". In red leather bound box.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.