Back By Popular Demand: Vote For Best Queen Portrait

Amen

My favourite is #2
(Although #3 is nice also)
I guess I like all but #4

Well lets call a spade a spade, my comments about lets keep our views about politics out of this forum have just been confirmed by badpenny, sorry realpenny.

Not once in his rebuttle does he mention the word " coin" but seems more content at character assasination, shame on you and please lets keep the subject of coins to the forefront of our discussions.

Thank you in advance..

badpenny... lol... :P

It is true I did not use the word "coin". I used the word "coins". I was talking pleural though. I did mention which image of QEII I liked though. I also asked about how out of date the image already was in 1954. ie: How young is QEII really in that image? I also said QEII looks better and more in line with reality in the oldest image. She looks more human than symbol. I also will mock silly things, reality is fine by me. Not once have you mentioned anything about the images in the poll or the poll. So please tell us which ones you like and why or why not. Discuss the coin... so far you have not at all. :)

C_C: They are great photos again. It is a nice series. The Kings were short with only text changes. Victoria is great on the 5 cent piece though.

I wonder if you could cross-reference the results of your poll with the demographics of those who participated... I would bet that a large majority of us are children of the late 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, and #2 was the obverse on the coins we grew up with... food for thought...

Number 2 is the best

I grew up with the #2 portrait but remember thinking how I liked finding the "old" number #1 coins in change when I was a kid. Maybe that is why I voted for #1.

I'm from close to the Canada border, and have always been at home in Canada.

I remember as a kid seeing both portrait 1 and 2. Because I was a kid, I favored the young visage but thought she should be wearing a tiara. I also did like the adult portrait of number 2 - just not as much as number 1.

Number 3 made a regal look I thought befitting a Queen. Like her grandfather on the 1936 silver dollar (specifically) - very regal and befitting a monarch.

When number 4 came out I wondered what in the world they were thinking?!
My first impression was they stripped the Queen of her regal status and changed the portrait to someone's grandmother.

In fact number 4 is one of the reasons I quit collecting modern Canadian coin sets and circulating coins. When they are in an album, I don't like the look of the page showing the OBVs!

I hope they give her back her crown - maybe next September?!

As to politics - coming from the US, I always thought it was just a "neat" idea that Canada still has a Queen. I wish I could see her sometime in person since I have lived during a lot of her reign which is so close to outlasting Queen Victoria.