Cape Colony: Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee from R.D. Irwin, Cape Town
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Form:
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Circular. Pierced at 12 o’clock for a ring to a narrow red-white-blue ribbon
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By:
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Heaton Mint, Birmingham (?) |
Date:
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1897 |
Ref:
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AM2: 57; Laidlaw: 0276b;
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Variations:
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Size | Metal | Mass | Value |
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39.0 mm | White Metal | 20.3 gm | $20 | 38.9 mm | Bronzed White Metal | 20.8 gm | $20 |
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Edge:
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Plain.
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Obverse:
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Veiled and diademed head of Queen Victoria, left. No maker’s name below truncation. Legend on a raised and roughened band: “IN HER REIGN LITERATURE SCIENCE & ART FLOURISHED. THE COLONIES WERE UNITED. LEGISLATION FOR THE AMELIORATION OF THE PEOPLE WAS ENACTED.”. Stop at the foot.
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Reverse:
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Across: “VIVAT REGINA (large letters) / (ornamental line) / “HER COURT WAS PURE; HER LIFE SERENE, / A THOUSAND CLAIMS TO REVERENCE CLOSED / IN HER AS MOTHER WIFE AND QUEEN.” / TENNYSON (small letters) / DIAMOND JUBILEE / CAPE TOWN 1897. / PRESENTED BY / R.D. IRWIN”
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Notes:
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R.D. Irwin was probably the successor of J.W. Irwin, tea merchant and grocer.
This medal shares the same obverse as Laidlaw 0276a and 0276c and all three have a similar reverse form.
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