1929 United Kingdom of Great Britain GEORGE V Half Crown Silver Coin i56647

Item: i56647

Authentic Coin of:

Great Britain under
George V – King: 6 May 1910 – 20 January 1936
1929 Silver Half Crown 32.3mm (13.90 grams) 0.500
Silver (0.2258 oz. ASW)
Reference: KM# 835 | Obverse Designer: Bertram MacKennal
GEORGIVS V DEI GRA: BRITT: OMN: REX:, Head of King George V left.
FID◦DEF IND◦IMP HALF◦CROWN◦1929 around coat-of-arms.

Authenticity.

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George
V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was
King of the United Kingdom
and the
British Dominions
, and
Emperor of India
, from 6 May 1910 until his
death in 1936.

He was the second son of
Albert Edward, Prince of Wales
(later King
Edward VII), and the grandson of the reigning British monarch,
Queen Victoria
. From the time of his birth, he
was third in the
line of succession
behind his father and his
elder brother,
Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale
.
From 1877 to 1891, George served in the
Royal Navy
, until the unexpected death of his
elder brother in early 1892 put him directly in line for the throne. On the
death of his grandmother in 1901, George’s father became
King-Emperor
of the
British Empire
, and George was created
Prince of Wales
. He succeeded his father in
1910. He was the only Emperor of India to be present at his own
Delhi Durbar
.

His reign saw the rise of
socialism
,
communism
,
fascism
,
Irish republicanism
, and the
Indian independence movement
, all of which
radically changed the political landscape. The
Parliament Act 1911
established the supremacy
of the elected
British House of Commons
over the unelected
House of Lords
. As a result of the
First World War
(1914–18) the empires of his
first cousins
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia
and
Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany
fell while the
British Empire expanded to its greatest effective extent. In 1917, George became
the first monarch of the
House of Windsor
, which he renamed from the
House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
as a result of
anti-German public sentiment. In 1924 he appointed the first
Labour

ministry
and in 1931 the
Statute of Westminster
recognised the dominions
of the Empire as separate, independent states within the
Commonwealth of Nations
. He was plagued by
illness throughout much of his later reign and at his death was succeeded by his
eldest son,
Edward VIII
.

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.