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Victoria: Diamond Jubilee
British
1897
Mint: Great Britain
Medium/Technique
Metal; bronze
Dimensions
Diameter and weight: 55 mm (2 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Horace Packard
Accession Number27.266
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CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsNumismatics – Medals
DescriptionCircular medal of Victoria (1819-1901), queen of Great Britain, commemorating her Diamond Jubilee.
Obverse: Profile bust of Victoria looking to proper right, wearing veil and a crown; inscribed at edge "VICTORIA ANNVM REGNI SEXAGESIMVM FELICITER CLAVDIT XX INV·MDCCCXVII·" and on bust "T.R.".
Reverse: Profile bust of a young woman looking to proper right above branches; inscribed at proper right "LONG-/-TVDO/DIERVM/IN/DEXTERA/EIVS", proper left "ET IN/SINISTRA/GLORIA", and below "1837".
Obverse: Profile bust of Victoria looking to proper right, wearing veil and a crown; inscribed at edge "VICTORIA ANNVM REGNI SEXAGESIMVM FELICITER CLAVDIT XX INV·MDCCCXVII·" and on bust "T.R.".
Reverse: Profile bust of a young woman looking to proper right above branches; inscribed at proper right "LONG-/-TVDO/DIERVM/IN/DEXTERA/EIVS", proper left "ET IN/SINISTRA/GLORIA", and below "1837".
InscriptionsObverse: Inscribed at edge "VICTORIA ANNVM REGNI SEXAGESIMVM FELICITER CLAVDIT XX INV·MDCCCXVII·" and on bust "T.R.".
Reverse: Inscribed at proper right "LONG-/-TVDO/DIERVM/IN/DEXTERA/EIVS", proper left "ET IN/SINISTRA/GLORIA", and below "1837".
Reverse: Inscribed at proper right "LONG-/-TVDO/DIERVM/IN/DEXTERA/EIVS", proper left "ET IN/SINISTRA/GLORIA", and below "1837".
ProvenanceBy 1927, The Mary Hooper Packard Collection; 1927, gift of Horace Packard to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 5, 1927)