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Message:: [QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 2778956, member: 10461"]<img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Victorian%20Type%20Set/Banner.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> I assembled this collection from 2001-2013 and have since broken it up, though as of mid-2017, I still have the <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/great-britain-gold-half-sovereign-of-queen-victoria-1901-from-the-terner-collection.286728/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/great-britain-gold-half-sovereign-of-queen-victoria-1901-from-the-terner-collection.286728/">ex-Terner 1901 half-sovereign</a>.  I thought I'd dust off the old pictures and notes and repost them on CoinTalk since the ancient <a href="https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/308712/the-victoria-hope-british-empire-collection/p1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/308712/the-victoria-hope-british-empire-collection/p1" rel="nofollow">Collectors Universe</a> thread about it got wrecked by successive software changes. This 1901 type set consisted of coins from the final year of Queen Victoria's reign. It is a snapshot of the coins of the Empire at the dawn of the 20th century, when Britannia still ruled a significant portion of the globe, and it was said, "The sun never set on the British Empire." Queen Victoria's reign of more than 63 years was the longest in British history and the British Empire was near its peak in 1901. While some colonies did not issue coins that year, many did, and there is a surprising variety in the portraits. In the British homeland, the coins portrayed the veiled "Old Head" or "Widow's Head" of Victoria, while the queen was frozen in time and forever young on the coinage of colonies like India and Ceylon. I built this set for my daughter, Victoria Hope. Her birth in September of 2001 heralded the beginning of the "New Victorian Era", exactly a century after the old Victorian era ended. We didn't really name her after the British queen- we just liked the name. I chose her middle name, Hope, in honor of my maternal great-grandmother, and it proved to be a timely choice, because ten days after September 11, 2001, the world was in need of a little Hope. Like the first Victorian Era, hopefully this new New Victorian Era will be a long one, full of prosperity and advancements. When Victoria was little, she showed some interest in "Queen Victoria from the Old Days", as she liked to put it, but that interest did not carry over into her <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/victoria.283505/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/victoria.283505/">teen</a> years, so I sold the collection and rolled the proceeds into other coins, which I'll keep in my own "Eclectic Box" collection and sell when she needs college textbooks or a wedding dress or something like that. And now, the set, such as it was.  You'll notice I wasn't as picky about pictures in those days, though I did have professional photographer Todd Pollock on Collectors Universe do many of these for me. [/QUOTE]

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