Item: i79456

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Mauritius – King George V (Ruled 1910-1934)
1934 Silver Quarter Rupee 29mm (2.97 grams) 0.916 Silver (0.0860 oz. ASW)
Reference: KM# 15
GEORGE V KING EMPEROR, Crowned George facing left. Crown, * MAURITIUS * K G QUARTER·RUPEE·1934, Lotus Flower, Flower-de-luce ( stylized lily), Tudor Rose.

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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.

Mauritius (French: Maurice), officially the Republic of Mauritius (French: République de Maurice), is an island nation in the Indian Ocean. The main Island of Mauritius is located about 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) off the southeast coast of the African continent. The Republic of Mauritius includes the islands of Rodrigues, Agalega and St. Brandon. The capital and largest city Port Louis is located on the main island of Mauritius.

In 1598, the Dutch took possession of Mauritius. They abandoned Mauritius in 1710 and the French took control of the island in 1715, renaming it Isle de France. France officially ceded Mauritius including all its dependencies to the United Kingdom (UK) through the Treaty of Paris, signed on 30 May 1814 and Reunion was returned to France. The British colony of Mauritius consisted of the main island of Mauritius along with Rodrigues, Agalega, St Brandon, Tromelin and the Chagos Archipelago, while the Seychelles became a separate colony in 1906. The sovereignty of Tromelin is disputed between Mauritius and France as some of the islands such as St. Brandon, Chagos, Agalega and Tromelin were not specifically mentioned in the Treaty of Paris.

In 1965, three years prior to the independence of Mauritius, the UK split the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritian territory, and the islands of Aldabra, Farquhar and Desroches from the Seychelles, to form the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT). The UK forcibly expelled the archipelago’s local population and leased its biggest island, Diego Garcia, to the United States. The UK has restricted access to the Chagos Archipelago; it has been prohibited to casual tourists, the media, and its former inhabitants. The sovereignty of the Chagos is disputed between Mauritius and the UK.

The people of Mauritius are multiethnic, multicultural and multilingual. The island’s government is closely modelled on the Westminster parliamentary system, and Mauritius is highly ranked for democracy and for economic and political freedom. The Human Development Index of Mauritius is one of the highest in Africa. Mauritius is ranked as the most competitive and one of the most developed economies in the African region. The country has no exploitable natural resources, the main pillars of the Mauritian economy are manufacturing, financial services, tourism, and information and communications technology. Mauritius is a welfare state, the government provides free universal health care, free education up to tertiary level and free public transport for students, senior citizens and the disabled. Along with the other Mascarene Islands, Mauritius is known for its varied flora and fauna, with many species endemic to the island. The island was the only known home of the dodo, which, along with several other avian species, was made extinct by human activities relatively shortly after the island’s settlement.