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Cape Colony: Coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra: Dordrecht

Cape Colony: Coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra: DordrechtCape Colony: Coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra: Dordrecht
Form: Circular holed at 12 o’clock for a ring
By: Vaughton, Birmingham (?)
Date: 1902
Ref:  AM2: 83; BHM: 3847 (obverse); Laidlaw: 0862;
Variations:
SizeMetalMassValue
39.2 mmGilded White Metal17.8 gm$20

Edge: Plain.

Obverse: Conjoined crowned and robed busts of the King and Queen, right. Below a branch of oak (left) and laurel (right) tied together. Signed in small letters above the knot: “V.B”. Legend underlined: CORONATION . EDWARD VII . ALEXANDRA”.

Reverse: Across: “TO COMMEMORATE (in an arc) / THE / CORONATION OF / HIS MAJESTY / KING EDWARD VII / DORDRECHT / 1902 (in an arc)”.

Notes: Dordrecht is situated in the Eastern Cape Province within the Stormberg Mountains, just north of Queenstown. Dordrecht was founded in 1856 and named after a city in the western Netherlands.