Bronze commemorative medallion: Queen Victoria (1819-1901)
Category
Coins and medals
Date
1897
Materials
Bronze, Leather, Velvet
Measurements
15 x 86 x 3 mm; 55 mm (Diameter)
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1340031.2
Summary
One of two bronze commemmorative medallions celebrating the 60 years of Queen Victoria's reign. The obverse showing aged queen with inscription "VICTORIA ANNUM REGINI DEXAGESIMUM FELICITER CLAUDIT XX 1UN. MDCCCXCVII" in 1897. The reverse showing a young queen in 1837 with inscription "LONGITUDO DIERUM IN DEXTERER GUIS ET IN SINISTRA GLORIA2. In red leather bound box.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.