Cape Colony: Queen Victoria Golden Jubilee from J.W. Irwin, Cape Town
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Form:
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Circular. Pierced at 12 o’clock.
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By:
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Heaton Mint, Birmingham. |
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Date:
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1887 |
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Ref:
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AM2: 36; Laidlaw: 0276a;
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Variations:
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| Size | Metal | Mass | Value |
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| 38.5 mm | White Metal | 15.7 gm | $20 |
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Edge:
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Plain
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Obverse:
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Veiled and diademed head of Queen Victoria, left. The maker’s name: “HEATON” below the truncation. Legend on a raised and roughened band: “IN HER REIGN LITERATURE SCIENCE & ART FLOURISHED. THE COLONIES WERE UNITED. LEGISLATION FOR THE AMELIORATION OF THE PEOPLE WAS ENACTED.”. Stop at the foot.
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Reverse:
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Across: “VIVAT REGINA (large letters) / (ornamental line) / “HER COURT WAS PURE; HER LIFE SERENE, / A THOUSAND CLAIMS TO REVERENCE CLOSED / IN HER AS MOTHER WIFE AND QUEEN.” / TENNYSON (small letters) / VICTORIA JUBILEE / CAPE TOWN 1887. / PRESENTED BY / J.W. IRWIN”
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Notes:
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J.W. Irwin, tea merchant and grocer, also issued a halfpenny token in 1879.
This medal shares the same obverse as Laidlaw 0276b and 0276c and all three have a similar reverse form.
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