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Gold Victoria Coronation Medal

by Benedetto Pistrucci on eBay! image

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  • laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    How can Pistrucci do so well on this and be so bad on english kings? Nice one trozau-are you going for it?
    One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics
    is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
  • trozautrozau Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭
    I wish I could. My coins budget is very limited at this point in time. image
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  • trozautrozau Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭
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  • MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,051 ✭✭✭
    Twenty-four hundred?? Hmmmm? Anyone have that book which lists the mintages of the gold piece?


    Here's the same medal in Silver (needs to be re-imaged, but hey! image )


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  • trozautrozau Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭
    Is the silver the same dimension as the gold (36.5 mm)? Or larger?
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  • MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,051 ✭✭✭
    trozau, yes! The silver piece is identified by Fearon-289.1, designed by
    Pistrucci (my boy, Benny!! image); 37 mm diameter; this and the gold are the official RM issue; the silver had a mintage of only 2209.
  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,638 ✭✭✭
    Oh, man. That is to die for. Wait! It's to kill for...image Trozau, it's screaming your name. You should liquidate some of your modern bullion to get it. If not, some other High Roller will, and you'll regret it when you see some Mouse scurrying away with that beautiful one ounce hunk of golden sculpture.image

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    .....GOD
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    "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

    "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5

    "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
  • MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,051 ✭✭✭


    << <i>you'll regret it when you see some Mouse scurrying away with that beautiful one ounce hunk of . . . >>

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    Don't worry about me any time soon, and especially in that rarified air!! image
  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,638 ✭✭✭
    Poker-face MacMouse.

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    .....GOD
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    "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

    "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5

    "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
  • What a beauty!!! Guess I need to go buy some more Lotto tickets tonight! image
    Askari



    Come on over ... to The Dark Side! image
  • shirohniichanshirohniichan Posts: 4,992 ✭✭✭


    << <i>trozau, yes! The silver piece is identified by Fearon-289.1, designed by
    Pistrucci (my boy, Benny!! image); 37 mm diameter; this and the gold are the official RM issue; the silver had a mintage of only 2209. >>



    I didn't think there were any "official" Royal Mint coronation medals for Victoria. image
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    Obscurum per obscurius
  • wybritwybrit Posts: 6,952 ✭✭✭
    Don't worry about me any time soon, and especially in that rarified air!!

    Are you kiddin'? MacCrimmon's servants take out his old $20 bills and burn them because they're not crisp enough.image
    Former owner, Cambridge Gate collection.
  • Gorgeous, Mac's really turns heads!
    Joe
  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,638 ✭✭✭
    Mac uses gold sovereigns for pocket change and $100 bills for toilet paper.

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    .....GOD
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    "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

    "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5

    "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
  • I take it his plumber never gripes about unplugging the johnny.
    Joe
  • MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,051 ✭✭✭


    << <i> Mac uses gold sovereigns for pocket change and $100 bills for toilet paper. >>

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    Och! All we Scots have is an outhouse built by tha wretched Sutherland's drunk overseers, an' wee corncobs fer ..... well, ye know what for! image

  • trozautrozau Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭
    A year or two ago, I had the chance to buy this gold George IV coronation medal from Steinberg's but didn't (another of Benedetto Pistrucci's work). It is the same size as the gold Victoria coronation medal.

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  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,638 ✭✭✭
    But Vicky is SO much prettier than old bullnose.

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    .....GOD
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    "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

    "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5

    "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
  • Here's the copperimage I have a shot at the silver of this one and was wondering what a good price for the silver would be?

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    Bill

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    09/07/2006
  • MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,051 ✭✭✭



    << <i>I have a shot at the silver of this one and was wondering what a good price for the silver would be? >>



    What condition is the silver medal in?

    I have this bit of data on the George IV Coro. medal......

    35 mm diameter. Plain edge. Mintage in silver: 1,060. Reference: Fearon-272.1. Eimer-1146.

    This basic design was copied in low relief for the regular coinage, which is known as the Laureate Head.

    Eimer notes that the Buckinghamshire Yeomen wore this medal as George's Royal Escort at the ceremony. Those examples will be edge inscribed B.Y.C.H, and most likely in gEF condition or slightly better.

    I know of a choice proof on the market several years ago with an asking price of $550 or so. An impaired specimen, of course, would fetch far less. Of course, with the recent increase in UK coinage, patterns, etc., prices for choice or better specimens could be considerably higher. Hard to guage since this isn't exactly a heavily traded market sector.


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    The silver is in about the same shape as the Copper I posted and it too is has an even dark tone.
    Bill

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    09/07/2006
  • trozautrozau Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭
    The auction ended with no taker.
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