Queen of the England, Ireland and India Alexandrina Victoria.

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Queen of the England, Ireland and India Alexandrina Victoria.

So here we have the Great Britain crown, nominal - 1. The year of issue of this coin is 1889, Mint: Royal mint, Tower Hill, London, UK. Total circulation – 1.807.000.

Alexandrina Victoria, born May 24 in 1819, Kensington Palace, London, England. — died January 22 in 1901, Osborne, near Cowes, Isle of Wight, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1837 – 1901 and Empress of India (from 1876). The only child of Edward, duke of Kent, she succeeded her uncle, William IV, in 1837.

She was first guided as queen by the Whig prime minister Lord Melbourne and then by her husband, Prince Albert, whom she married in 1840. Devoted to him, she accepted his decisions on all issues in the period sometimes called the “Albertine monarchy.” They had nine children, through whose marriages descended many of the royal families of Europe. From 1861 Victoria deeply mourned Albert’s death and thereafter made royal decisions as she believed he would have advised.

She was frequently at odds with Prime Minister William E. Gladstone and welcomed his replacement by Benjamin Disraeli in 1874. Her reign, called the Victorian Age, was marked by a period of British expansion and a restoration of dignity and popularity to the monarchy, as shown by her Jubilees of 1887 and 1897. She was the longest-reigning monarch in British history until surpassed by Elizabeth II in 2015.

Object data

Title

Queen of the England, Ireland and India Alexandrina Victoria.

Artist

Obverse: Joseph Edgar Boehm. Reverse: Benedetto Pistrucci.

Founder

Royal mint, Tower Hill, London, UK.

Date

1889.

Culture

Great Britain.

Medium

Silver 0.925.

Dimensions

28.28x38.61x2.75.

Classification

Coin.