The gold coin collectors have been waiting for, for nearly 200 years is finally released!The first-ever gold quarter sovereign to feature Queen Victoriasyoung headportrait is released in celebration of Queen Victorias bicentenary. It was 200 years ago, on 24th May 1819, that Princess Alexandrina Victoria was born. Just like our current monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, who is Victorias great-great-granddaughter, it was never anticipated that she would ever become Queenat the time she was fifth in line to the throne.Little did Victoria know she would become one of the most powerful women in British history, nor could she have anticipated she would become Britains longest reigning monarch, a record only surpassed over a century later, in 2015, by her great-great-granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.Victorias reign saw the British Empire expand until it covered a quarter of the globe; and one-third of the worlds population, it saw industrialisation on a scale never before imagined an