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The Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal (French: Médaille du couronnement de la Reine Élizabeth II) is a commemorative medal instituted to celebrate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953.
The obverse features a crowned effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, in a high-collared ermine cloak and wearing the collar of the Garter and Badge of the Bath, and facing right. There is no raised rim and no legend. The reverse shows the Royal Cypher EIIR surmounted by a large crown.
To commemorate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953, around 130,000 official medals were struck. These were issued to chosen members of the royal household, the government, the Armed Forces and others in public service from Britain and the Commonwealth.
Released to commemorate the coronation of Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, the obverse of this official coronation medal features the royal crown at the forefront, finished with ‘CORONATION 1953’ inscribed around the outer edge. The reverse of the medal features the ‘EIIR’ monogram.
The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II as monarch of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ceylon, and Pakistan took place on 2 June 1953.
Coronation medal (Queen Elizabeth II, 2 June 1953) awarded to Lieutenant Commander H R Newgass GC.
William and Mary. The two figures are, remarkably simply, described on their coronation medal as “King and Queen” (REX ET REGINA), perhaps the simplest solution to an unusual constitutional situation in which they had been offered the English throne but not the Scottish one until a month later.
