1887 Solid Silver Half Crown Coin Queen Victorian Old Very Fine Grade Antique UK

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1887 Solid Silver Half Crown Coin Queen Victorian Old Very Fine Grade Antique UK:
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1887 Half Crown
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Over HundredYear OldBritish Half CrownFrom the reign of Queen VictoriaVictoria\'s Half Crowns were struck from 1839 to 1901, none were struck between 1851 and 1873 because of the striking of the new decimal coin the Florin which was struck in its place. (watch out for Half Crowns dated 1866 and 1871 as they will most likely be forgeries). Their were three types of Half Crown struck for Victoria, they were the Young Head, Jubilee Head and the Old or Widow Head Types. The Jubilee Head Type was struck from 1887 to 1892, the left facing portrait was designed by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm and engraved by Leonard Charles Wyon. The coin takes its name the Jubilee Type from the design of Victoria\'s portrait depicting her in her new small light weight crown she had made especially for the Jubilee as the other crown was getting to heavy for her to wear for prolonged periods of time. The obverse inscription again reads \"VICTORIA DEI GRATIA\". The reverse was also engraved by Leonard Charles Wyon, it was of a crowned shield with the Royal Standard on it. going around the shield is a garter with an inscription on it which reads \"HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE\". The inscription \"HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE\" is in French, it is the motto of the English Chivalric Order of the Garter. Roughly translated it means \"Shamed be he who thinks evil of it\". The roots of the motto date back to Edward III, he was dancing with his daughter in law Joan of Kent when her garter slipped down her leg and rested around her ankle where everyone could see, this caused many in the room to laugh and snigger at her embarrassing situation, Edward distraught by the way his daughter in law was humiliated and looked down upon by the other guests made the statement \"HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE\" and took the garter and wore it around his own leg. The phrase later became the motto of the order in praise of Edwards chivalrous behaviour. The inscription going around the outside of the coin reads \"BRITANNIARUM REGINA FID: DEF:\" with the date at the bottom of the coin. The coin was made of .925 fine silver, they had a diameter of 32 millimetres and they weighed approximately 14.4 grams. In Very Good Condition for its ageStarting at onePenny...With ..If your the only buyer you win it for 1p....Grab a Bargain!!!!Would make an Excellent Lucky Charm orCollectibleKeepsakeSouvenirI will have a lot of Old Coins on so CLICK HERE TO VISIT MY SHOP
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The half crown was a denomination of British money worth half of a crown, equivalent to two and a half shillings (30 pennies), or one-eighth of a pound. The half crown was first issued in 1549, in the reign of Edward VI. No half crowns were issued in the reign of Mary, but from the reign of Elizabeth I half crowns were issued in every reign except Edward VIII, until the coins were discontinued in 1967. The half crown was demonetised (ahead of other pre-decimal coins) on 1 January 1970, the year before the United Kingdom adopted decimal currency on Decimal Day.During the English Interregnum of 1649-1660, a republican half crown was issued, bearing the arms of the Commonwealth of England, despite monarchist associations of the coin\'s name. When Oliver Cromwell made himself Lord Protector of England, half crowns were issued bearing his semi-royal portrait.The half crown did not display its value on the reverse until 1893.British coinage
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Pound sterling Coins of the pound sterling List of British banknotes and coins Scottish coinage Coins of Ireland List of people on coins of the United KingdomQueen Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was 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 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 at the age of 18, after her father\'s three elder brothers had all died, leaving no legitimate, surviving 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, 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 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, which is longer than that of any other British monarch and the longest of any female monarch in history, 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.Queen of the United Kingdom
Reign 20 June 1837 – 22 January 1901
Coronation 28 June 1838
Predecessor William IV
Successor Edward VII
Prime Ministers See list
Empress of India
Reign 1 May 1876 – 22 January 1901
Imperial Durbar 1 January 1877
Successor Edward VII
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Spouse Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
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Edward VII
Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Helena, Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
Beatrice, Princess Henry of BattenbergFull name
Alexandrina Victoria
House House of Hanover
Father Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn
Mother Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
Born 24 May 1819
Kensington Palace, London
Died 22 January 1901 (aged 81)
Osborne House, Isle of Wight
Burial 4 February 1901
Frogmore, Windsor
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British Regnal year 50 Vict. 1 – 51 Vict. 1
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Thai solar calendar 2430Year 1887 (MDCCCLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian 6: Menelik II January 11 – Louis Pasteur\'s anti-rabies treatment is defended in the French Academy of Medicine by Dr. Joseph Grancher.
January 20 – The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
January 21
The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is formed.
Brisbane receives a daily rainfall of 465 millimetres – a record for any Australian capital city.March 3: Helen Keller and Sullivan. January 24 – Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian troops defeat the Italians.
January 28 – In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, USA, the largest snowflakes on record are reported. They are 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick.
January 28 – Construction of the foundations of the Eiffel Tower starts in Paris, France.
February 2 – In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, the first Groundhog Day is observed.
February 4 – The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887, as passed by the 49th United States Congress, is signed into law by President Grover Cleveland.
February 5 – The Giuseppe Verdi opera Otello premieres at La Scala.
February 8 – The Dawes Act, or the General Allotment Act, is enacted.
February 23 – The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000 along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
February 26 – At the Sydney Cricket Ground, George Lohmann becomes the first bowler to take eight wickets in a Test innings. The famous William Frawley was born.
March 3 – Anne Sullivan begins teaching Helen Keller.
March 4 – Gottlieb Daimler unveils his first automobile.
March 7 – North Carolina State University is established as North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.
March 13 – Chester Greenwood patents earmuffs.March 4: Daimler
April–June April 1 – Mumbai Fire Brigade is established.
April 4 – Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
April 9 – The Charter of Incorporation was approved for The Teutonia Männerchor Hall in the East Allegheny (Deutschtown) neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
April 10 – The Catholic University of America is founded on Easter Sunday.
April 21 – Schnaebele incident – French/German border incident nearly leads to war between the two countries.
April 20 – Occidental College is founded.
May 3 – An earthquake hits Sonora, Mexico.
May 9 – Buffalo Bill\'s Wild West Show opens in London.
May 14 – The cornerstone of the new Stanford University, in northern California, is laid (the college opens in 1891).
June 8 – Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his punched card calculator.
June 18 – The Reinsurance Treaty is closed between Germany and Russia.
June 21 – The British Empire celebrates Queen Victoria\'s Golden Jubilee, marking the 50th year of her reign.[1]
June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation\'s first national park, Banff National Park.[2]
June 28 – Minot, North Dakota is incorporated as a city.June 23: Banff National Park. June 29 – The United Retail Federation is established in Brisbane.July–September July 1 – Construction of the iron structure of the Eiffel Tower starts in Paris, France
July 6 – King Kalākaua of Hawai\'i is forced by anti-monarchists to sign the \'Bayonet Constitution\', stripping the Hawaiian monarchy of much of its authority as well as disfranchising most native Hawaiians, all Asians and the poor.
July 12 – Odense Boldklub, the Danish football team, is founded as the Odense Cricket Club.
July 19 – Dorr Eugene Felt receives the first U.S. patent for his comptometer.[3]
July 26 – Blackpool F.C. is created in England.
August – The earliest constituent of the U.S. National Institutes of Health is established at the Marine Hospital, Staten Island, as the Laboratory of Hygiene.
August 13 – Hibernian F.C. of Scotland defeats Preston North End of England to win the \"Championship of the World\" after the two teams win the Association football Cup competitions in their respective countries.
September 5 – The Theatre Royal, Exeter, England, burns down, killing 186 people.
September 28 – Start of the 1887 Yellow River flood in China, killing 900,000 to 2,000,000 people.July 26: Esperanto
October–December October 1 – The British Empire takes over Balochistan.
October 3 – Florida A&M University opens its doors in Tallahassee, Florida.
November
Results of the Michelson-Morley experiment are published, indicating that the speed of light is independent of motion.
Arthur Conan Doyle\'s detective character Sherlock Holmes makes his first appearance, in the novel A Study in Scarlet published in Beeton\'s Christmas Annual.
November 3 – The Associação Académica de Coimbra, the students\' union of the University of Coimbra in Portugal, is founded.
November 6 – The Association football club Celtic F.C. is formed in Glasgow, Scotland, by Irish Marist Brother Walfrid to help alleviate poverty in the city\'s East End by raising money for his charity, the Poor Children\'s Dinner Table.[4][5]
November 8 – Emile Berliner is granted a patent for his Gramophone.
November 10 – Louis Lingg, sentenced to be hanged for his alleged role in the Haymarket affair, a bombing in Chicago on May 4, 1886, kills himself by dynamite.
November 11 – August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer, George Engel, Michael Schwab, and Samuel Fielden are hanged for inciting riot and murder in the Haymarket affair.
November 13 – bloody Sunday: Police in London clash with radical and Irish nationalist protesters.November: Michelson-Morley. December 5 – International Bureau of Intellectual Property.
December 25 – Glenfiddich single malt Scotch whisky is first produced.Date unknown Franz König publishes \"Über freie Körper in den Gelenken\" in the medical journal Deutsche Zeitschrift für Chirurgie, describing (and naming) the disease Osteochondritis dissecans for the first time.
Teachers College, later part of Columbia University, is founded.
The New Gate is built in Jerusalem.
The first All-Ireland Hurling and Football Finals are held.
Japan annexes Iwo Jima.
Zululand becomes a British colony.
Construction of Spandau Prison in Berlin is completed.
Heinrich Hertz discovers the photoelectric effect on the production and reception of electromagnetic (EM) waves (radio). This was an important step towards the understanding of the quantum nature of light.
Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick invents the contact lens, made of a type of brown glass.
A. G. Edwards, Inc., is founded by General Albert Gallatin Edwards.
Heyl & Patterson Inc., a pioneer in coal unloading equipment, is founded by Edmund W. Heyl and William J. Patterson.Heinrich Hertz. Laos and Cambodia are added to French Indochina.
Antonio Guzmán Blanco ends his term as President of Venezuela.
Publication in Barcelona of Enrique Gaspar\'s El anacronópete, the first work of fiction to feature a time machine.[6]
Publication begins of Futabatei Shimei\'s Ukigumo, the first modern novel in Japan.
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn is Cleveland Alexander January 1
Wilhelm Canaris, head of German military intelligence in World War II (d. 1945)
Max Ritter von Müller, German World War I fighter ace (d. 1918)
January 3 – August Macke, German painter (d. 1914)
January 10 – Robinson Jeffers, American poet (d. 1962)
January 13 – Jorge Chavez, pioneer Peruvian aviator (d. 1910)
January 17 – Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (d. 1975)
January 19 – Alexander Woollcott, American intellectual (d. 1943)
January 21 – Maude Davis, oldest person in the World (d. 2002)
January 22
Helen Hoyt, American poet (d. 1972)
Elmer Fowler Stone, American aviator, the first United States Coast Guard aviator (d. 1936)
January 23 – Dorothy Payne Whitney, American-born philanthropist and social activist (d. 1968)
January 28 – Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-born pianist and conductor (d. 1982)
February 1 – Charles Nordhoff, English-born author (d. 1947)
February 2 – Pat Sullivan, Australian director and producer of animated films (d. 1933)
February 3 – Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (d. 1914)
February 4 – Sheila Kaye-Smith, English writer (d. 1955)
February 6 – Josef Frings, Archbishop of Cologne (d. 1978)
February 10 – John Franklin Enders, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1985)
February 11
Ernst Hanfstängl, German-born pianist and U.S. politician (d. 1975)
H. Kent Hewitt, American admiral (d. 1972)
John van Melle, Dutch-born writer (d. 1953)
February 17 – Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer (d. 1947)
February 20
Carl Ebert, German theatre and opera director (d. 1980)
Vincent Massey, Governor-General of Canada (d. 1967)
February 26
Grover Cleveland Alexander, baseball player (d. 1950)
William Frawley, American actor (d. 1966)
March 3 – Lincoln Beachey, American stunt pilot (d. 1915)
March 4 – Violet MacMillan, American Broadway theatre actress (d. 1953)
March 5 – Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (d. 1959)
March 9 – Phil Mead, English cricketer (d. 1958)
March 14 – Sylvia Beach, American publisher in Paris (d. 1952)
March 14 – Charles Reisner, American silent actor and film director (d. 1962)
March 22 – Chico Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1961)
March 23
Juan Gris, Spanish-born painter and graphic artist (d. 1927)
Prince Felix Yussupov, Russian assassin of Rasputin (d. 1967)
March 24 – Fatty Arbuckle, American actor (d. 1933)
March 25 – Chūichi Nagumo, Japanese admiral (d. 1944)April–June April 10 – Bernardo Houssay, Argentine physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
April 15 – Mike Brady, American golfer (d. 1972)
May 2
Vernon Castle, dancer, (d. 1918)
Eddie Collins, baseball player (d. 1951)
May 5 – Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1972)
May 10 – Mir Ghotbeddin Mohammad Angha, 40th master of the Oveyssi Sufi Order (d. 1962)
May 11 – Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-born pianist (d. 1951)
May 15 – John H. Hoover, American admiral (d. 1970)
May 25 – Pio of Pietrelcina, Italian saint (d. 1968)
May 26 – Paul Lukas, Hungarian-born actor (d. 1971)
May 31 – Saint-John Perse, French diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
June 2 – Orrick Johns, American poet and playwright (d. 1946)
June 9 – Emilio Mola, Spanish Nationalist commander (d. 1937)
June 22 – Julian Huxley, British biologist (d. 1975)
June 25 – George Abbott, American playwright (d. 1995)July–September
Shoeless Joe Jackson
Harry Hooper July 7 – Marc Chagall, Russian-born painter (d. 1985)
July 16 – Shoeless Joe Jackson, baseball player (d. 1951)
July 18 – Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian politician and traitor (d. 1945)
July 22 – Gustav Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
July 28 – Marcel Duchamp, French-born artist (d. 1968)
July 29 – Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born composer (d. 1951)
August 3 – Rupert Brooke, British war poet (d. 1915)
August 12 – Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)
August 13 – Julius Freed, American inventor and banker (d. 1952)
August 15 – Edna Ferber, American novelist (d. 1968); other sources give her year of birth as 1885
August 17
Emperor Karl I of Austria (d. 1922)
Marcus Garvey, American publisher, entrepreneur, and Pan Africanist (d. 1940)
August 24 – Harry Hooper, baseball player (d. 1974)
August 28 – István Kühár, Slovene (Prekmurian) writer and politician (d. 1922)
September 1 – Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (d. 1961)
September 3 – Frank Christian, American jazz musician (d. 1973)
September 12 – Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli, Azerbaijani statesman and writer, claimed \"core author\" of novel Ali and Nino (d. in Gulag 1943)
September 13
Lancelot Holland, British admiral (d. 1941)
Lavoslav Ružička, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)
September 16
Nadia Boulanger, French composer and composition teacher (d. 1979)
Kamato Hongo, the last verified living person born in 1887 (d. 2003)
September 26
Edwin Keppel Bennett, British writer (d. 1958)
William Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse, British aviator, first airman to receive the Victoria Cross (d. 1915)
September 28 – Avery Brundage, American sports official (d. 1975)October–December
Walter Johnson October 2 – Violet Jessop, RMS Titanic survivor (d. 1971)
October 4 – Charles Alan Pownall, American admiral and third Military Governor of Guam (d. 1975)
October 5 – René Cassin, French judge, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1976)
October 6 – Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (d. 1965)
October 8 – Huntley Gordon, Canadian-born actor (d. 1956)
October 14 – Ernest Pingoud, Finnish composer (d. 1942)
October 22 – John Reed, American journalist (d. 1920)
October 24 – Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Queen Consort of Spain (d. 1969)
October 31 – Chiang Kai-shek, 1st ～ 5th President of the Republic of China (d. 1975)
November 1 – L. S. Lowry, English painter (d.1976)
November 6 – Walter Johnson, baseball player (d. 1946)
November 10 – Arnold Zweig, German writer (d. 1968)
November 11 – Walther Wever, German general and pre-World War II Luftwaffe commander (d. 1936)
December 14 – Xul Solar, Argentine painter, sculptor, writer (d. 1963)
November 15 – Georgia O\'Keeffe, American painter (d.1986)
November 17 – Bernard Montgomery, World War II British commander (d. 1976)
November 19 – James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
November 23 – Boris Karloff, English actor (d. 1969)
November 24 – Erich von Manstein, German field marshal (d. 1973)
November 27 – Masaharu Homma, Japanese general (d. 1946)
November 28 – Jacobo Palm, Curaçao born composer (d. 1982)
November 30 – Beatrice Kerr, Australian swimmer, diver, and aquatic performer (d. 1971)
December 12 – Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer (d. 1974)
December 13 – Alvin Cullum York, American war hero during World War I (d. 1964)
December 22 – Srinivasa Aaiyangar Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (d. 1920)
December 25 – Conrad Hilton, American hotelier (d.1979)Deaths
January–June February 19 – Eduard Douwes Dekker, Dutch writer (b. 1820)
February 26 – Anandi Gopal Joshi, first Indian woman doctor (b. 1865)
February 27 – Alexander Borodin, Russian composer (b. 1833)
March 8 – Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman and reformer (b. 1813)
March 24 – Ivan Kramskoi, painter (b. 1837)
March 28 – Ditlev Gothard Monrad, Danish politician (b. 1811)
April 10 – John T. Raymond, American actor (b. 1836)
April 23 – John Ceiriog Hughes, Welsh poet (b. 1832)
May 7 – CFW Walther, German-American theologian (b. 1811)
May 8 – Aleksandr Ulyanov, Russian revolutionary, brother of V. I. Lenin (b. 1866)
May 14 – Lysander Spooner, American philosopher and abolitionist (b. 1808)
June 4 – William A. Wheeler, Vice President of the United States, (b. 1819)
June 10 – Richard Lindon, Inventor of the rugby ball, the India-rubber inflatable bladder and the brass hand pump for the same (b. 1816)July–December July 8 – John Wright Oakes, landscape painter (b. 1820)
July 17 – Dorothea Dix, American social activist (b. 1802)
July 25 – John Taylor, American religious leader (b. 1808)
August 8 – Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1808)
August 19 – Alvan Clark, telescope manufacturer (b. 1804)
August 20 – Jules Laforgue, French poet (b. 1860)
October 17 – Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (b. 1824)
October 21 – Bernard Jauréguiberry, admiral (b. 1815)
November 2 – Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (b. 1820)
November 8 – Doc Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter (b. 1851)
November 19 – Emma Lazarus, American poet (b. 1859)
November 28 – Gustav Fechner, experimental psychologist (b. 1801)