Great Britain, Victoria, Crown 1887, toned, PCGS MS 62

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Great Britain, Victoria, Crown 1887, toned, PCGS MS 62

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Obverse: Crowned and veiled bust (‘Jubilee Head’) of Queen Victoria left, legend around.

Lettering (Latin): VICTORIA D:G: BRITT: REG: F:D:

Engraver: Joseph Edgar Boehm

Reverse: St. George slaying the dragon right, date and engraver’s initials in exergue.

Lettering (Latin): 1887; B.P.

Engraver: Benedetto Pistrucci

Edge: Reeded

The pictures provided are of the actual coin for sale.

Guaranteed genuine.

You can verify PCGS certification numbers: 55400921

€ 699

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Country	Great Britain
Ruler	Victoria (1837-1901)
Face Value	Crown
Year of issue	1887
Metal	Silver
Fineness	925
Catalogue #	KM# 765; SPINK 3921; ESC 2585; Davies 480
Weight, g.	28,22
Diameter, mm.	38,73
Our code	Z456
Die Axis	↑↑
Additional info	-

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History

In the summer of 1887, London staged a spectacle the likes of which it had never seen. Fifty kings, princes, and heads of state converged on Buckingham Palace for a banquet in honor of Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee – fifty years on the throne. The procession through the city the following day stretched, in Mark Twain’s words, to the limit of sight in both directions. Ten miles of scaffolding had been erected along the route to accommodate the crowds. Indian cavalry escorted the Queen’s gilded landau through streets delirious with celebration. She wore a bonnet rather than a crown – she had refused the robes of state – and yet no one in that crowd doubted for a moment that they were witnessing the most powerful monarch in the world.

The Crown of 1887 was born from this moment. Struck at the Royal Mint specifically for the Jubilee, it introduced a new portrait of Victoria – the Jubilee Head, sculpted by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm – replacing the Young Head that had appeared on British coinage since 1838. The queen was now sixty-seven, and the new effigy showed her as she was: mature, veiled, wearing a small crown and ornate jewels. It was an honest portrait of an older woman who happened to rule a quarter of the earth’s surface.

The coin was not without controversy. The small crown perched atop Victoria’s head was widely mocked as unbecoming of an empress. The reverse carried no stated denomination – an oversight that caused immediate practical problems. The sixpence, gilded by fraudsters, circulated as a half sovereign. The double florin, almost identical in size to the Crown, was passed off in pubs across England as the higher-value coin – earning the unfortunate nickname the Barmaid’s Grief. The Royal Mint began reconsidering the entire Jubilee coinage within a year of its release.

And yet there is something deeply affecting about this Crown. The British Empire in 1887 was at its absolute zenith – more territory, more subjects, more naval power than any empire in human history. The sun, as the saying goes, never set on it. But Victoria herself had spent much of the previous twenty-six years in near-total seclusion, paralyzed by grief after the death of Prince Albert, her popularity eroding with each unseen year. The Jubilee restored her to her people. The woman who rode through London that June day was not the remote, mourning widow the public had grown frustrated with – she was, again, their queen.

This coin captures that restoration in silver. A new portrait for a new chapter – the last and most imperious act of the longest reign Britain had ever seen.