GREAT BRITAIN QUEEN VICTORIA 1/2 SOVEREIGN 1877 3.99 gr. 0.1177 oz. 0.917 gold

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GREAT BRITAIN QUEEN VICTORIA 1/2 SOVEREIGN 1877 3.99 gr. 0.1177 oz. 0.917 gold Reign of Queen Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. From 1 May 1876, she used 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 the King 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 at the age of 18, after her father's three elder brothers had all died without surviving legitimate children. The United Kingdom was already an established constitutional monarchy, in which the Sovereign held relatively few direct political powers. Privately, Victoria attempted to influence government policy and ministerial appointments. Publicly, she became a national icon, and 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 nickname "the grandmother of Europe". After Albert's death in 1861, Victoria plunged read more