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When Queen Elizabeth passes away one day, will she still be on the circulating Canadian coins, or will she be replaced?
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Canada
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United States
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Replaced. Most likely by ol' Charlie Windsor |
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Canada
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The Greeks continued to produce coins with Alexander the Great for 200 years, after his death... Yea, I know comparing the two is a stretch, though consider Canadian and American paper money. All of the figures on our bills are long dead. Maybe they will make a bill of Queen Elizabeth after her death, and switch the bust on coinage.
I think she is important enough in Canadian history to have a coin/bill with her bust in Canadian currency.
Edited by gawd0wns
02/11/2009 9:56 pm
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Canada
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Definatley will be replaced by her son, or perhaps her grandson if the son elects to pass it up. Please click below and then click around some more in order to see how the Canadian obverses have changed once the death of the various monarch has occured. One King actually abdicated. BTW, this present queen has been the longest serving british monarch ever. http://www.coinsandcanada.com/index...=price_guide |
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replaced by King George VII(Prince Charles) if he is still alive, or if he does not abdicate his throne to King William V.
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Canada
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The queen isn't on all the paper money. Why does she have to be on all the coinage.
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Canada
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I'm not a big fan of the current "Ronald McDonald" queens portrait.
In fact, I see no reason we need to have a British monarch on our coins at all, aside from a little tradition. Neither a King Charles or King William obverse on Canadian coins would especially excite me.
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Canada
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I like the tradition ... part of the Commonwealth. I don't know off hand if there's any legal reason behind it. I may look into that when I have some time. I'm not a big fan of the current portrait of QEII ... I liked the de Pedery-Hunt design. As an added bonus, de Pedery-Hunt was a nice lady and a heck of an artist.  |
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BTW, this present queen has been the longest serving british monarch ever. Actuaslly Victoria is the longest reigning monarch to date at 64 years. 1837-1901. Queen Elzabeth II who took the throne in 1952 has been at it foe 57 years., |
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Canada
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I have only heard good things about pedery_hunt chequer.
I also heard she just recently died..truly a great canadian who survived WW2 Europe
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Oppps...sorry and thnks for the clarification chrycopaul...I must have misunderstood something along the road
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United Kingdom
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She's on the Canadian coins because she is the Queen of Canada.
What is the current obverse design for Canadian coins? I take it that it recently changed? Is it back to being the same as ours in the UK by Ian Rank-Broadley? If so I agree about the Ronald McDonald thing. I don't care for this at all.
Personally I didn't like the dePedery-Hunt design, it made the queen look very severe. It looked like it was trying to be the same portrait as the one by Raphael Maklouf but not nearly as good.
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United States
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Coins look better than paper money. The paper money has birds and things.
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Canada
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I like the earliest liz portrait the best, and then the design that followed, at least until they adopted the cheap-looking flatter relief style in the 80's. I've heard it rumoured that the queen wants to prevent charles from becoming king somehow, but I don't know how she would do this exactly other than by staying alive for a very long time.
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Posted 02/11/2009 9:49 pm
