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Victoria - Half Farthing, Diamond Jubilee Model Token
| Issuer | United Kingdom |
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| Year | 1897 |
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| Reference(s) | W&E#3865A1 |
| Obverse description | Veiled and crowned effigy of Queen Victoria facing left, rendered in the old head portrait style, with a draped bust and pearl necklace visible. The circumferential legend reads VICTORIA QUEEN & EMPR, divided around the portrait, with VICTORIA to the left and QUEEN & EMPR to the right. The date 1897 appears in the lower field below the truncation. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded border. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Not a circulating coin and never intended as one. This 1897 piece is a trade model token produced by a die-sinker or medallist — almost certainly for presentation to the Royal Mint or a commercial client — during the flurry of jubilee-related proposals that preceded Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. The Mint received dozens of unsolicited and solicited model submissions that year, most of which went nowhere. W&E 3865A1 places this firmly in Withers & Edwards' cataloguing of pattern and model pieces, a classification that itself tells you more about its origin than any physical detail.