MrDannyDoodah

My debut post here, although I've been a keen collector of coins for probably 15 to 20 years, mostly used decimals and rogue Channel island and IOM ones, usually found in change. Biggest regrets have been losing my mum's Churchill Crown that she had prized for years before she gave me it as a child and I promptly lost it, and as a young teen spending my single metal 'Doves' two pound coin, despite having promised the person who gave it to me, my nan (now recently deceased), that I would save it forever so that it would be worth something, I really wish I had kept hold of it now. Anywho here is my query: A friend of mine has, rather flatteringly if somewhat optimistically, recommended my help in identifying a coin or medal of some sort one of his brother's has found in an old house recently. It has on one side a portrait of, we think, Queen Victoria looking quite young and facing forwards but slightly off centre. On the other side is a picture of what we think is her coronation, showing a lion in the front and two women on either side of her, the one on the right has her arm outstretched and appears to be holding laurel leaves or something similar. My friend's attempt to read the writing on the heads side is "victoria crowned at westminster 1866 in the coming of her age", although my feeling is the year is actually 1838 and the phrase is more likely to end "in the 19th year of her age". I have found a few pictures of a similar coronation medal but nothing exactly like the one my friend has found, so any ideas? Thanks

As a word of caution I can't help recalling that when I visited the corinium museum in Cirencester as a child they sold tons of replica roman coins, so could it be you have somehow acquired one of these replicas rather than a genuine one. Of course it could be a genuine one, in which case just ignore me, but I think it's worth bearing in mind.

The head side photo is attached to my last message, and the tails side to this message.