2012 $20 Fine Silver Coin - The Queen's Diamond Jubilee 1952-2012: Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip
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In the 1,200-year history of the British monarchy, Queen Elizabeth II is the first monarch ever to reach nearly 80 years on the throne.
To mark this rare milestone, Canada and the Royal Canadian Mint have issued this special commemorative silver coin. The design features a double effigy of Elizabeth as a young woman at the time she came to the throne in 1952, together with her husband Prince Philip. The image is bordered by two decorative elements containing a shamrock, a Tudor rose, and a thistle (symbolic of the British Isles) as well as several maple leaves (symbolic of Canada).
This Diamond Jubilee coin is double-struck with a frosted cameo proof finish—the highest quality available from the Royal Canadian Mint.
A Young Princess Meets Her Prince
Queen Elizabeth II, the first-born child of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, began her public life when she was a teenager. Her first radio address, broadcast from Windsor Castle in 1940, attested to her mettle even from the young age of 14, as she encouraged and comforted other children while bombs fell on London.
It was at the age of 13, while accompanying her parents on a royal tour of Dartmouth Naval College in 1939, that Princess Elizabeth met the dashing young Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten. The lieutenant, five years her senior, was born a Prince of both Greece and Denmark, but his family had been exiled from Greece when he was a child. As he escorted Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret around the Dartmouth campus, young Elizabeth fell in love. After more than five years of letter-writing throughout the war, Philip asked for Elizabeth's hand in marriage in 1946.
After War, a Time to Celebrate
After the bleak days of war, Princess Elizabeth's wedding captured the world's imagination. The ceremony in Westminster Abbey on November 20, 1947, broadcast by radio to 200 million people around the world, was relatively modest out of respect for Britain's war recovery effort.
Philip continued his naval career until Elizabeth's coronation in 1952. In the years that followed, he became a patron of hundreds of charitable organizations. Today, he is Britain's longest-serving consort.
A Lifelong Partnership
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip have four children and eight grandchildren, and continue their lifelong partnership of mutual support and service to the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth and numerous individual organizations and charities.
• Weight: just over 1 oz .9999 fine silver
Includes:
• 2012 $20 Fine Silver Coin - The Queen's Diamond Jubilee 1952-2012: Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip
To mark this rare milestone, Canada and the Royal Canadian Mint have issued this special commemorative silver coin. The design features a double effigy of Elizabeth as a young woman at the time she came to the throne in 1952, together with her husband Prince Philip. The image is bordered by two decorative elements containing a shamrock, a Tudor rose, and a thistle (symbolic of the British Isles) as well as several maple leaves (symbolic of Canada).
This Diamond Jubilee coin is double-struck with a frosted cameo proof finish—the highest quality available from the Royal Canadian Mint.
A Young Princess Meets Her Prince
Queen Elizabeth II, the first-born child of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, began her public life when she was a teenager. Her first radio address, broadcast from Windsor Castle in 1940, attested to her mettle even from the young age of 14, as she encouraged and comforted other children while bombs fell on London.
It was at the age of 13, while accompanying her parents on a royal tour of Dartmouth Naval College in 1939, that Princess Elizabeth met the dashing young Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten. The lieutenant, five years her senior, was born a Prince of both Greece and Denmark, but his family had been exiled from Greece when he was a child. As he escorted Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret around the Dartmouth campus, young Elizabeth fell in love. After more than five years of letter-writing throughout the war, Philip asked for Elizabeth's hand in marriage in 1946.
After War, a Time to Celebrate
After the bleak days of war, Princess Elizabeth's wedding captured the world's imagination. The ceremony in Westminster Abbey on November 20, 1947, broadcast by radio to 200 million people around the world, was relatively modest out of respect for Britain's war recovery effort.
Philip continued his naval career until Elizabeth's coronation in 1952. In the years that followed, he became a patron of hundreds of charitable organizations. Today, he is Britain's longest-serving consort.
A Lifelong Partnership
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip have four children and eight grandchildren, and continue their lifelong partnership of mutual support and service to the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth and numerous individual organizations and charities.
• Weight: just over 1 oz .9999 fine silver
Includes:
• 2012 $20 Fine Silver Coin - The Queen's Diamond Jubilee 1952-2012: Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip
