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George VI medal

cbkcbk Posts: 1
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Can someone help me identify this medal? My husband found it many years ago and has always wondered what it was. At first I thought I found it on the web to be a coronation medal, but the flipside isn't correct.

Thanks for any help,

Carrie

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  • shirohniichanshirohniichan Posts: 4,992 ✭✭✭
    There were lots of private coronation medals minted to celebrate the event. I don't have any references to tell you who minted it, but it's not an official issue.
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  • harashaharasha Posts: 3,097 ✭✭✭✭✭
    From Edmundson's "Collecting Modern Commemorative Medals:"

    For the purpose of use by commercial firms an officially-approved obverse was designed by Mr. Langford Jones; it showed the conjugate heads of the King and Queen, crowned, robed and facing left. The legend reads: CORONATION OF GEORGE VI & QUEEN ELIZABETH. Horizontally to right of King's shoulder: 12 MAY / 1937.

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