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"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Canada
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For coins, banknotes and stamps combined it is QEII hands down. If you are just talking about coins, then Lincoln because of the 4-13 billion US pennies made every year.
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This prior CCF thread covered a related, but different question:
That was a fun read! They touched both on the "whose mug was minted most OFTEN on coins (mintage)" AND "whose mug was on the most different TYPES if coins." There, too, Lincoln was the answer to the first question; Elizabeth was the winner of the second. The coins/notes/stamps angle makes it a lot harder to gather the data. |
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Australia
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I think Queen Elizabeth 11.
Her image in various forms has appeared on banknotes, stamps as well as coins, of the British Isles as well as a very large number of British Commonwealth countries for a period of over 65 years.
That is is lot of time, and for a lot of countries.
Curiously, her image has never appeared on the coins of the British Commonwealth Country of India, the 2nd most populous Country in the World. India became independent from Britain, before she became Queen.
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I agree with the consensus.  |
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Canada
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in Canada QE2 is on all coinage, not just 1 like Lincoln. this is the same with all the commonwealth countries. not to mention all our RCM commemoratives coins. |
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Australia
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Same here in Australia too. I just did a quick total of all mintages of the coins I have in my collection
and I came up with about 16 billion coins. That is only the decimals and QE2 was on the coins before that,
and I don't have all the decimals either.
Steve :)
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Australia
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I just did a quick total on the Canadian one cent coins that I have and there's another 31.5 billion.
Steve :)
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United States
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I still think the >~600 billion Lincoln cents alone far outnumber all coins, bills, stamps, etc. ever made depicting QEII
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Australia
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UK coins since decimal is approx. another 69 Billion, that is only the circulation coins.
Steve :)
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United States
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My childhood collection contained an unusual proportion of Elizabeth II coins for an American kid. Every continent, as many countries as I could find. SO I am well aware of the reach. But these days I go by the numbers, and the Lincoln Cent wins. I have looked at the mintage figures for the U.K., Canada and Australia. The combined number of coins issued by these countries with the image of Queen Elizabeth is no more than 200 billion. I have posted some supporting figures earlier, but if someone wants to challenge that, please have at it (as for Australia, which I did not address earlier, I do not see a single year with total mintages of all types exceeding 1 billion).. I have not looked at other Commonwealth countries, but I cannot imagine they would triple this number. So for coins, it is Lincoln (notwithstanding my personal admiration for Queen Elizabeth regardless of mintage statistics). |
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Thanks Tunnioc. Really interesting thread.
Check out my counterstamped Lincoln Cent collection: http://goccf.com/t/303507 |
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I still think the >~600 billion Lincoln cents alone far outnumber all coins, bills, stamps, etc. ever made depicting QEII  |
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