'Sovereign Queen Victoria' Commemorative Strike

This year, Great Britian celebrates the 200th birthday of one of our greatest monarchs.

Aged just 19, Queen Victoria was on June 28, 1838 crowned at Westminster Abbey. Little would the young queen have known that on that day she was embarking on one of the most successful reigns of any monarch in our history. Her sovereignty lasting 64 years, a time span only overtaken by Queen Elizabeth II in 2015, saw the British Empire double in size, covering more than one fifth of the world and one third of the world's population.

Queen Victoria is regarded as one of the mostpowerful women in British history, the legacy of her reign, the Victorian era, bore witness to profound economic, social and political change. Her strategic marriage policy for her children and grandchildren, that bound the British royal family to most of the other European royal and noble houses, made her the 'Grandmother of Europe'.

Now, at her 200th birthday, Queen Victoria has beenselected for an exclusive edition honouring the most important European monarchs.