1887 Gold Specimen Set, Queen Victoria Jubilee

Contains 67.9 Grams of 22 carat gold. (Equivalent of 8.5 sovereigns).

An eleven-coin specimen set from Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee year: 1887. This set contains four gold coins and seven silver coins, including a Five Pound, Two Pound, Sovereign, Half Sovereign, Crown, Double Florin, Half Crown, Florin, Shilling, Sixpence and Threepence, all dated 1887. Each piece bears Joseph Edgar Boehm’s Jubilee Portrait of Victoria, introduced in this year: the first coinage portrait specifically introduced to mark a jubilee. This year is also significant in that it saw the gold Five Pound coin enter circulation and the introduction of the second circulating gold Two Pound coin.

This specimen set includes examples of eleven coins issued in Victoria's Golden Jubilee year, including four gold coins and seven silver coins:

• 1887 Gold Five Pound or Quintuple Sovereign
• 1887 Gold Two Pound or Double Sovereign
• 1887 Gold Sovereign
• 1887 Gold Half Sovereign
• 1887 Silver Crown
• 1887 Silver Double Florin
• 1887 Silver Half Crown
• 1887 Silver Florin
• 1887 Silver Shilling
• 1887 Silver Sixpence
• 1887 Silver Threepence

Obverse: Jubilee bust of Queen Victoria wearing imperial crown and facing left, a long veil falls behind the head, the bust is draped and decorated with the Star of the Garter, and also the badge of the Imperial Order of the Crown of India; around, VICTORIA D:G: BRITT: REG: F:D: , the artist's initials J.E.B. below the shoulder.

Reverse: St. George on horseback holding a short sword in his right hand, the horse rearing to right over a fallen dragon which has a broken lance in its chest; in exergue, the date, 1887 and the artist's initials B.P.; the mint mark (if any) is in the ground above the middle of the date.

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