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CG04286
Victoria 1895 Crown LVIII
Victoria (1837-1901), silver Crown, 1895 LVIII, old veiled head left, T.B. below for engraver Thomas Brock, legend and toothed border around rim, VICTORIA. DEI. GRA. BRITT. REGINA. FID. DEF. IND. IMP. rev. St George slaying dragon, date in exergue, B.P. to upper right for designer Benedetto Pistrucci, edge inscribed in raised letters, *DECVS ET TVTAMEN* ANNO REGNI LVIII, weight 28.38g (Bull 2598; ESC 308; Davies 513 dies 2/A; S.3937). Attractively toned, some hairline tone marks, otherwise extremely fine.
The Latin legends translates on obverse as "Victoria by the Grace of God, Queen of the Briton's, Defender of the Faith, Empress of India." And on the edge "An ornament and a safeguard, in the fifty eighth first year of the reign."