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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 6649228, member: 10461&quot;]<b><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">India (British): silver 2-annas of Queen Victoria, 1901, Calcutta mint</font></font></b></p><p><b><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">[ATTACH=full]1268627[/ATTACH] </font></font></b></p><p><b><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></b></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">A small coin, and not quite Mint State, but with attractive toning.&nbsp; Though this coin was from the year when Victoria died, aged 81, after a 63-year reign, she remained forever young on the coins of British India.&nbsp; The handsome portrait here somewhat resembles the one used on her famous <a href="https://www.pcgs.com/auctionprices/item/1847-crown-esc-2571-undecimo-edge/206439/-7619393859048167882" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pcgs.com/auctionprices/item/1847-crown-esc-2571-undecimo-edge/206439/-7619393859048167882" rel="nofollow">&quot;Gothic&quot; crowns</a> from earlier in the reign.&nbsp; Meanwhile, the homeland coinage portrayed her more realistically as the elderly, <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/great-britain-gold-half-sovereign-of-queen-victoria-1901-from-the-dr-jacob-terner-collection.376787/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/great-britain-gold-half-sovereign-of-queen-victoria-1901-from-the-dr-jacob-terner-collection.376787/">veiled</a> widow she was by then.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">This was an inexpensive coin, and barely cost me more than the slab fee alone would have been, had I been the one who submitted it.&nbsp; It was <i>exponentially</i> less expensive than a Gothic crown, for sure!</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><a href="https://www.pcgs.com/cert/35618647" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pcgs.com/cert/35618647" rel="nofollow">https://www.pcgs.com/cert/35618647</a></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces17535.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces17535.html" rel="nofollow">https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces17535.html</a></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">[ATTACH=full]1268627[/ATTACH]</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">[ATTACH=full]1268628[/ATTACH]</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">[ATTACH=full]1268629[/ATTACH]</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">[ATTACH=full]1268630[/ATTACH]</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">[ATTACH=full]1268631[/ATTACH] </font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="1">005395S</font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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