1848-1887 United Kingdom Great Britain VICTORIA Old Silver Florin Coin i56691

Item: i56691

Authentic Coin of:

Great Britain under 

Victoria – Queen: 
20 June 1837 – 22 January 1901
1848-1887 (date illegible) Silver Florin 29mm (10.55 grams) 0.9250 Silver (0.3364 oz. ASW)
Reference: KM# 746
Crowned bust of Queen Victoria left.
Crowned shields of England, Scotland and Ireland in cross formation with 
flowers at corners.

Authenticity.

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Victoria 
(Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
 
from 20 June 1837 until her death. From 1 May 1876, she had the additional title 
of
Empress of India
.

Victoria was the daughter of
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn
, the 
fourth son of
King George III
. Both the Duke of Kent and King 
George III died in 1820, and Victoria was raised under close supervision by her 
German-born mother
Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
. She 
inherited the throne aged 18, after her father’s three elder brothers had all 
died, leaving no surviving legitimate children. The United Kingdom was already 
an established
constitutional monarchy
, in which the sovereign 
held relatively little direct political power. Privately, Victoria attempted to 
influence government policy and ministerial appointments; publicly, she became a 
national icon who was identified with strict standards of personal morality.

Victoria married her first cousin,
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
, in 
1840. Their 
nine children
married into royal and noble 
families across the continent, tying them together and earning her the sobriquet 
“the grandmother of Europe”. After Albert’s death in 1861, Victoria plunged into 
deep mourning and avoided public appearances. As a result of her seclusion,
republicanism
temporarily gained strength, but 
in the latter half of her reign her popularity recovered. Her
Golden
and Diamond Jubilees were times of 
public celebration.

Her reign of
63 years and seven months
is known as the
Victorian era
. It was a period of industrial, 
cultural, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom, 
and was marked by a great expansion of the
British Empire
. She was the last
British monarch
of the
House of Hanover
. Her son and successor,
Edward VII
, belonged to the
House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
, the line of his 
father.

Great 
Britain, also known as Britain, is an island in the
North Atlantic
off the north-west coast of
continental Europe
. With an area of 209,331 km² 
(80,823 sq mi), it is the
largest island in Europe
and the
ninth-largest in the world
. In 2011 the island 
had a population of about 61 million people, making it the
third-most populous island
in the world, after

Java in
Indonesia
and
Honshu
in
Japan
. The island is the largest in the
British Isles

archipelago
, which also includes the island of
Ireland
to its west and over
1,000 smaller surrounding islands
.

The island is dominated by an
oceanic climate
with quite narrow temperature 
differences between seasons. Politically, the island is part of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
, 
constituting most of its territory: most of
England
,
Scotland
, and
Wales
are on the island, with their respective 
capital cities, 
London
,
Edinburgh
, and
Cardiff
. The term Great Britain often extends 
to include surrounding islands that form part of England, Scotland, and Wales.

A single
Kingdom of Great Britain
resulted from the
Union
of
Scotland
and
England
(which already comprised the 
present-day countries of
England
and
Wales
) in 1707. More than a hundred years 
before, in 1603,
King James VI
,
King of Scots
, had inherited the throne of 
England, but it was not until 1707 that the Parliaments of the two countries 
agreed to form a unified state. In 1801, Great Britain
united
with the neighboring
Kingdom of Ireland
, forming the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
, 
which was renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland after 
the
Irish Free State
seceded in 1922.