Victorian oddity

[Guest Grant]

I've recently spotted a Victorian coin in my local collectors shop. I wished to purchase the coin but at the last minute he would'nt let it go.

It was round, copper with on old victoria head on one side with usual latin type going round the coin. But on the other side I think a young victorian head with horizontal type either side of the head. I'm sorry this description is vauge but I only viewed it for a few seconds.

Please can anyone help

Grant

[Chris Perkins]

It sounds like a bronze 1897 diamond jubilee medal. Not worth a great amount of money, but I suspect, as is often the case, the proprietor of the collectable shop also has no idea what it is!

If it's a nice one, get it for a tenner. More if it's perfect. Although I normally come across the silver version. Geoff, is this the bronze diamond jubilee medal, and are they as common as the silver version?

[Guest Grant]

Cheers chris

[Geoff T]

Sorry not to get back until now, but this does sound like the bronze 1897 diamond jubilee medal.

How big is it? The large bronze is about 55mm in diameter, the small one presumably the same size as the silver, which is about 20mm. The reverse has the young head and the motto "Longitudo dierum in dextra eius et in sinistra gloria" (Longevity in her right hand and glory in her left".

I've no figures to hand but I've no reason to believe that the small bronze is any rarer than the silver. I have the small silver and large bronze, the latter in the original case.

Geoff

[Guest Guest]

It was the silver version and he finaly priced it at 2 quid (in fairly good condition.

Cheers.

ps(formerly GRANT, now registered as PWEIZATION)