GREAT BRITAIN - VICTORIA* - Lot 295

GREAT BRITAIN - VICTORIA* june 20, 1837 - january 22, 1901 VICTORIA D: G: BRITT: REG:F:D: Jubilee bust of Queen Victoria veiled and crowned on the left. J.E.B. for Joseph Edgar Boehm. R/. Saint George slaying the dragon. In the exergue, vintage. B.P. for Benedetto Pistrucci. ♦ Fr 391 2 Pounds gold 1887 London Jubilee (16.00 g). Superb. *Queen Victoria was the daughter of Prince Edward Augustus, the 4th son of George III, born on May 24, 1819 at Kensington Palace, London. She died on the Isle of Wight on January 22, 1901. She was Queen of England and Ireland, Queen of Canada and Empress of India. She was crowned on June 28, 1838 in Westminster Abbey. In 1840 she married her cousin Albert de Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha, the father of their nine children.