The Jubilee coinage are British coins with an obverse depicting Queen Victoria (pictured) by Joseph Edgar Boehm, and were struck between 1887 and 1893. In 1879, Boehm was selected to create a new depiction of Victoria—some British coins still showed her as she had appeared forty years previously. Boehm was slow to complete the project, and it took years before it came to fruition. The new coins were released in June 1887, at the time of the queen's Golden Jubilee. The crown on Victoria's head was seen as too small, was widely mocked, and helped bring about the design's replacement. The series saw the entire issuance of the double florin, from 1887 to 1890, and the last circulating British fourpence piece, intended for use in British Guiana, in 1888. Bronze coins (the penny and its fractions) were not part of the Jubilee coinage, due to a surplus of them in commerce. The Jubilee coinage's replacement, the Old Head coinage, with an obverse created by Thomas Brock, began to be struck in 1893.
Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_coinage
_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1483:
The last monarch of the House of York and the Plantagenet dynasty, Richard III, was crowned King of England. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_III_of_England
1801:
French Revolutionary Wars: A Royal Navy squadron failed to eliminate a smaller French Navy squadron at Algeciras before they could join their Spanish allies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Algeciras
1962:
The United States conducted the Sedan nuclear test as part of Project Plowshare, a program to investigate the use of nuclear explosions for civilian purposes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedan_%28nuclear_test%29
1997:
The Troubles: In response to the Drumcree conflict, five days of unrest began in nationalist districts of Northern Ireland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Northern_Ireland_riots
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
bidon: 1. A bottle or flask for holding a beverage such as water or wine; (specifically, sports) a water bottle which can be squeezed to squirt the beverage out of the nozzle, especially (cycling) one designed for mounting on a bicycle. 2. (archaic) A container for holding a liquid. 3. A cup made of wood. 4. An oil drum; a petrol can. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bidon
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life, and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived — a Defensive war I think a righteous war to Defend my life & property & that of my family, in my own opinion, is right & justifiable in the sight of God. An offensive war, I believe to be wrong and would therefore have nothing to do with it, having no right to meddle with another man's property, his ox or his ass, his man servant or his maid servant or anything that is his. Neither does he have a right to meddle with anything that is mine, if he does I have a right to defend it by force. --Daniel Morgan https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Daniel_Morgan
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