Where is Jubilee Cairn?

Jubilee Cairn is in the Scottish Highlands, United Kingdom.

How do I get to Jubilee Cairn?

Its coordinates are 57.1386°, -3.0989°.

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Yes, Jubilee Cairn is free to enter.

Memorials & monuments · Scottish Highlands

Jubilee Cairn

In or near Strathdon.

Free admission

Jubilee Cairn — Monument, dating to 1887.

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Typical visit: 15 min–45 min

Free entry
Dog-friendly

Jubilee Cairn is a public memorial or monument in the United Kingdom. Wikidata describes it as: "Monument, dating to 1887.". Coordinates: 57.1386°, -3.0989°.

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The Jubilee coinage or Jubilee head coinage are British coins with an obverse featuring a depiction of Queen Victoria by Joseph Edgar Boehm. The design was placed on the silver and gold circulating coinage beginning in 1887, and on the Maundy coinage beginning in 1888. The depiction of Victoria wearing a crown that was seen as too small was widely mocked, and was replaced in 1893. The series saw the entire issuance of the double florin (1887–1890) and, in 1888, the last issue for circulation of the groat, or fourpence piece, although it was intended for use in British Guiana. No bronze coins (the penny and its fractions) were struck with the Jubilee design. In 1879 Boehm was selected to create a new depiction of Victoria that could be adapted for the coinage – even though the queen marked her 60th birthday that same year, some British coins still showed her as she appeared forty years previously. Boehm gave only intermittent attention to the project, and it took years before it came to fruition. The queen finally gave approval in early 1887, and the new coinage was prepared. Some of the reverse designs for the coinage were changed at the same time, depicting heraldic imagery and engraved by Leonard Charles Wyon. When the new coins were released in June 1887, they proved a popular souvenir of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, but they were criticised for the diminutive crown, and because the reverse designs did not state the value of the coin. The sixpence was gilded by fraudsters to pass as a half sovereign, and it was quickly withdrawn by the Royal Mint, which resumed its old reverse design (stating its value), slightly modified. Royal Mint authorities began to consider replacing the Jubilee issue within a year of its release, and this may have been hastened by Boehm's death in 1890. A committee was created to consider replacements, and the Old Head coinage, with an obverse created by Thomas Brock, began to be struck in 1893.

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History

depicts Victoria with a small crown.]] (1881)]] By the late 1870s, most denominations of British coins carried versions of the obverse design featuring Queen Victoria created by William Wyon and first introduced in 1838, the year after she acceded to the throne at the age of 18. The queen, approaching her 60th birthday, no longer resembled her numismatic depiction; and in February 1879, the private secretary to the queen, Sir Henry Ponsonby, informed the Deputy Master of the Royal Mint,}} Charles Fremantle, that Joseph Edgar Boehm had been engaged to produce a medallic likeness of the queen that could be adapted for coinage purposes. Born in Austria, Boehm had trained as a medallist and had…

Architecture

]] On the obverse of the Jubilee coinage, Victoria wears her small diamond crown, which she had bought so as not to have to wear a heavier one. It was the crown that she preferred to wear at that time, and appears on other contemporary effigies of her. Nevertheless, it quickly became controversial; as the numismatic authors, G. P. Dyer and P. P. Gaspar wrote in A New History of the Royal Mint, "the Boehm portrait, with its tiny crown in danger of tumbling off the back of the queen's head, attracted most criticism". Sir John Craig in his earlier history, The Mint, deemed the effect of the small crown on Victoria's head "ludicrous". Kevin Clancy, in his history of the sovereign coin, stated:…

Description

{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align: left;" |+ ! scope="col" | Denomination ! scope="col" | Obverse ! scope="col" | Reverse ! scope="col" | Reverse designer and first year used on denomination ! scope="col" | Years struck with Jubilee obverse and most recent later usage of reverse on this denomination |- ! scope="row" | Five-pound piece | | | Benedetto Pistrucci (1887) | 1887 (London and Sydney mints). Reverse most recently used in 2026. |- ! scope="row" | Double sovereign | | | Benedetto Pistrucci (1823) | 1887 (London and Sydney mints). Reverse most recently used in 2026 |- |}

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Coordinates: 57.1386, -3.0989

Sources

osm: n8037978788 (ODbL)
commons: Summit of Mona Gowan - geograph.org.uk - 2676102.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
wikipedia: Jubilee coinage (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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