Ira and Larry Goldberg Auctioneers
Auction 100 5-6 Sep 2017
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Great Britain. Crown, 1845. S.3882; ESC-282; Dav-105; KM-741. Victoria. Obverse, young portrait of queen by William Wyon. VICTORIA DEI GRATIA, date below. Reverse crowned shield of arms within wreath. BRITANNIARUM REGINA FID DEF around. Edge has cinquefoil stops and DECVS ET TUTAMEN ANNO REGNI VIII in incuse letters.
Superb mint state with a peripheral light tangerine toning, this coin is better struck than nearly all of its peers. The sharpness of detail on the queen's hair and hairband is rarely matched. From an old Edwardian collection. PCGS graded MS-61. Estimate Value $4,000 - 4,500
* When George IV died in 1830 and her uncle William IV became King, Victoria became the heir presumptive. William IV died in the early hours of 20th June 1837, so that Victoria learned she was Queen in the middle of the night. Under George IV and to a lesser extent under his brother William IV, the monarchy had become unpopular. George's wild living and extravagance, and William's resistance to political change was frowned upon by the ordinary people.
All this would change under Victoria, though at the outset the public could never have anticipated the scale of the change that would happen, or the length of Victoria's reign - stretching into the twentieth century. A reign that would alter the face of Britain and the globe.
Victoria's coinage was magnificent. The 1839 'Una and the Lion' £5 piece, and Wyon's elegantly simple 'Young Head' Crowns of 1844, 1845 and 1847, plus the 1847 and 1853 'Gothic' Crowns are British numismatic classics.
Superb mint state with a peripheral light tangerine toning, this coin is better struck than nearly all of its peers. The sharpness of detail on the queen's hair and hairband is rarely matched. From an old Edwardian collection. PCGS graded MS-61. Estimate Value $4,000 - 4,500
* When George IV died in 1830 and her uncle William IV became King, Victoria became the heir presumptive. William IV died in the early hours of 20th June 1837, so that Victoria learned she was Queen in the middle of the night. Under George IV and to a lesser extent under his brother William IV, the monarchy had become unpopular. George's wild living and extravagance, and William's resistance to political change was frowned upon by the ordinary people.
All this would change under Victoria, though at the outset the public could never have anticipated the scale of the change that would happen, or the length of Victoria's reign - stretching into the twentieth century. A reign that would alter the face of Britain and the globe.
Victoria's coinage was magnificent. The 1839 'Una and the Lion' £5 piece, and Wyon's elegantly simple 'Young Head' Crowns of 1844, 1845 and 1847, plus the 1847 and 1853 'Gothic' Crowns are British numismatic classics.