2001 Victorian Anniversary Silver Proof One Crown

Description

Sterling Silver .925 Weight: 28.28 g Diameter: 38.61 millimeters The Victorian Anniversary Silver Proof £5 Five Pound Coin of 2001 recalls that great age of industry, reform and progress with a magnificent commemorative reverse inspired by one of the most famous events in Victorian history, the Great Exhibition. The ornate iron frame of the spectacular Crystal Palace provides a fitting and decorative background for a portrait of the young Queen Victoria, while the use of railway lines to form the letter V is a pleasing reminder that the Victorian era is also the age of railway expansion. The obverse of the coin features the portrait of Queen Elizabeth II by Ian Rank Broadley