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Medal - Victoria Christening
| Location | United Kingdom |
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| Year | 1842 |
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| Composition | Pewter |
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| Obverse description | Conjoined busts of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in high relief, facing left, with Victoria in the foreground. The circumferential legend reads around the rim, and the marriage date appears in the lower field. |
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| Reverse description | A christening scene in high relief depicting a robed priest presenting the infant Prince of Wales over a baptismal font, flanked by attendant figures; a winged angelic figure hovers above in the upper field. The birth date appears in a recessed exergue at the bottom. |
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| Reverse lettering | CHRISTENING OF THE PRINCE OF WALES BORN NOVR 9TH 1842 |
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