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King Edward VII & Emperor Of India Accession 1901 Medal

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 Posted 06/21/2011  2:32 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add mmorgan22 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
This is a medal that I picked up at a flea market. I don't usually collect medals, but this one was in such great shape and has amazing toning, that I couldn't pass it up. I haven't been able to find any of these for sale so I have no idea what it is worth and how common they are. The medal is about the size of a US penny, so it is pretty small. Anymore info would be helpful. Thanks!

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 Posted 06/21/2011  7:14 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add alganbagerap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I haven't encountered this one before, and I think there may be more going on than is seen at first glance.
What exactly is being crushed beneath the crown? Is there some political message here?
Great toning though.
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 Posted 06/22/2011  10:03 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add mmorgan22 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I have never seen another one either. Tried searching online for another one and none has come up. I'm hoping that someone might have a book on medals that would shed some light on this. Thanks.
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 Posted 06/23/2011  04:43 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CheetahCats to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Beautiful toning, indeed. Nice pickup.
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 Posted 07/13/2011  1:25 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add mmorgan22 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Just thought I would give this a bump and see if anyone knows about this medal or where to find more info. Thanks.
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That's a nice medal--it shows a lot of careful die tooling. It takes a lot of skill to engrave a convincing 3/4 portrait.
I have no specific info, but judging by the overall style, it looks contemporary to the event.
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Found this article online..Very interesting history:

"Edward VII (1901)
(Source: The Times, January 24, 1901; quoting the supplement to The London Gazette, January 22, 1901).
Whitehall, January 23, 1901. On Tuesday afternoon, the twenty-second of January instant, at half-past six o'clock, our late most gracious Sovereign Queen Victoria expired at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, in the eighty-second year of Her age, and the sixty-fourth year of Her reign. This event has caused one universal feeling of regret and sorrow to Her late Majesty's faithful and attached subjects, to whom She was endeared by the deep interest in their welfare which She invariably manifested, as well as by the signal virtues which marked and adorned Her character.
Upon the intimation of this distressing event, the Lords of the Privy Council assembled this day at St. James's Palace, and gave orders for proclaiming His present Majesty, who made a most gracious declaration to them, and caused all the Lords and others of the late Queen's Privy Council, who were then present, to be sworn of His Majesty's Privy Council.

Whereas it hath pleased Almighty God to call to His mercy our late Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria, of Blessed and Glorious Memory, by whose Decease the Imperial Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland is solely and rightfully come to the High and Mighty Prince Albert Edward : We, therefore, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of this Realm, being here assisted with these of her late Majesty's Privy Council, with numbers of other principal gentlemen of quality, with the Lord-Mayor, Aldermen, and citizens of London, do now hereby, with one voice and consent of tongue and heart, publish and proclaim, That the High and Mighty Prince Albert Edward, is now, by the death of our late Sovereign, of happy memory, become our only lawful and rightful Liege Lord Edward the Seventh, by the Grace of God, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India: To whom we do acknowledge all faith and constant obedience, with all hearty and humble affection, beseeching God, by whom Kings and Queens do reign, to bless the Royal Prince Edward the Seventh, with long and happy years to reign over us. Given at the Court at St. James's, the twenty-third day of January, in this year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and one."
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Thanks for the article D.
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