1 Crown New Zealand Silver George VI (1895-1952)

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Issue year(s):
1949

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1949, New Zealand, George VI. Beautiful Large Silver Crown Coin. AU-UNC!


Mint Year: 1949 Reference: KM-22. Condition: AU-UNC! Mintage: 200,000 pcs. Denomination: Crown - Struck to commemorate a proposed royal visit! Material: Sterling Silver (.925) Weight: 28.25gm Diameter: 38mm

Obverse: Head of George VI left. Designer´s signature (HP) below head truncation. Legend: KING GEORGE THE SIXTH Reverse: Silver fern leaf, surrounded by four five-spiked stars. Legend: NEW ZEALEND CROWN . 1949




George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions from 11 December 1936 until his death. He was the last Emperor of India (until 1947) and the last King of Ireland (until 1949).

As the second son of King George V, he was not expected to inherit the throne and spent his early life in the shadow of his elder brother, Edward. He served in the Royal Navy during World War I, and after the war took on the usual round of public engagements. He married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in 1923, and they had two daughters, Elizabeth (who succeeded him as Queen Elizabeth II) and Margaret.

At the death of his father in 1936, the future George VI’s brother ascended the throne as Edward VIII. However, less than a year later Edward expressed his desire to marry the twice-divorced American socialite Wallis Simpson. For political and religious reasons, the British Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, advised Edward that he could not marry Mrs. Simpson and remain king. So, Edward abdicated in order to marry. By reason of this abdication, unique in the history of the British Isles (previous abdications were forced by military or political pressures), George VI ascended the throne as the third monarch of the House of Windsor.

Within twenty-four hours of his accession the Irish parliament passed the External Relations Act, which essentially removed the power of the monarch in Ireland. Further events greatly altered the position of the monarchy during his reign: three years after his accession, his realms, except Ireland, were at war with Nazi Germany. In the next two years, war with Italy and the Empire of Japan followed. A major consequence of World War II was the decline of the British Empire, with the United States and the Soviet Union rising as pre-eminent world powers. With the independence of India and Pakistan in 1947, and the foundation of the Republic of Ireland in 1949, King George’s reign saw the acceleration of the break-up of the British Empire and its transition into the Commonwealth of Nations.


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1949, New Zealand, George VI. Beautiful Large Silver Crown Coin. AU-UNC! Mint Year: 1949 Reference: KM-22. Condition: AU-UNC! Mintage: 200,000 pcs. Denomination: Crown - Struck to commemorate a proposed royal visit! Material: Sterling Silver (.925) Weight: 28.25gm Diameter: 38mm ...

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CoinWorldTV 1949, New Zealand, George VI. Beautiful Large Silver Crown Coin. AU-UNC! Mint Year: 1949 Reference: KM-22. Mintage: 200,000 pcs. Denomination: Crown - Struck to commemorate a proposed royal visit! Condition: Minor contact-marks in reverse bneath lower star, otherwise a nic ...

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NEW ZEALAND 1949 1 Crown Royal Visit Silver UNC

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NEW ZEALAND 1949 1 Crown Royal Visit Silver UNC

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CoinWorldTV 1949, New Zealand, George VI. Beautiful Large Silver Crown Coin. AU-UNC! Mint Date: 1949 Reference: KM-22. Mintage: 200,000 pcs. Condition: A nicely preserved AU-UNC! Denomination: One Crown - Struck to commemorate a proposed royal visit! Material: Sterling Silver (.925 ...

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† COINS, AUSTRALASIAN TERRITORIES, NEW ZEALAND PROOF COINS George VI (1936-1952), Cupro-nickel Proof Crown, 1949 (KM 22). Choice uncirculated Proof, lightly toned and perhaps one of only three known. £5000-7000

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