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andyg, may I ask you about your sources? Did you look through catalogs yourself or you have some kind of literature on the subject? Sometimes I just flip over the pages of German and Indian states to drool over the coins with the Brits.
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I did some research for a question I was asked on another forum so I already had the list.
I do have a few coin books that cover the general area but most of this was sourced from Krause. I also completely forgot about the early American states... there are probably others too which may have been overlooked.
I concentrated on portraits, so Kutch (Indian state) and New Guinea which only used legends are missing also.
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United States
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OK, going back to the original Queen Elizabeth II part of the topic, how many differant portraits of Queen Elizabeth II have been used on coins over the years? Not counting images which have been used for special commemoratives, etc.
Elizabeth II - Laureate Effigy (Mary Gillick)
Elizabeth II - Tiara Obverse (Arnold Machin)
Elizabeth II - Crowned Bust (Cecil Thomas)
Elizabeth II - Diadem Obverse (Doro de Pedery-Hunt)
Elizabeth II - Uncrowned Effigy (Susanna Blunt)
Elizabeth II - Crowned Effigy (Raphael Maklouf)
Elizabeth II - Matured Effigy (Ian Rank-Broadley)
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United States
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I got this new Cook Isl. set today. While I'm OK with the reverse design  I totally don't like the obverse. They made queen's head too small, and the field looks just empty. In general, I think, a lot of modern coins are becoming cheapy touristy items.  |
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Here's another example, the new Niue set. The coins feel a little more solid than Cook Islands'.  Obverse has too small a head, in my opinion, and they filled the field with a meaningless trim.  |
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United States
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usagigoya, do you have this one on your list?  |
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How about this one from New Zealand?  |
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Sorry, I'm still on this subject. I found a nice description on the Royal British Mint's site with visuals for people who may not be familiar with the images. Of course it talks only about the UK coinage. There have been four portraits of the Queen on the circulating coins of the United Kingdom.  The first coinage portrait of Her Majesty was a portrait by Mary Gillick adopted for the earliest coins in her reign and issued from 1953. This portrait shows the Queen wearing a wreath. For the decimal coins of 1968 a fresh portrait was adopted by Arnold Machin OBE,RA. The Queen is seen wearing the tiara given as a wedding present from her grandmother Queen Mary. The third change in portrait was by Raphael Maklouf FRSA. The design shows the Queen with the Royal Diadem which she wears on her way to and from the State Opening of Parliament. The portrait introduced in 1998 is the work of sculptor Ian Rank-Broadley FRBS, FSNAD. It is only the fourth portrait of Her Majesty the Queen to appear on coins of her long reign. Her Majesty is wearing the tiara which was used in an earlier coinage portrait by Arnold Machin. The Queen continues to be shown facing right, in accordance with a tradition dating back to the seventeenth century, where successive monarchs face in alternative directions on the coinage. Now I have a question (maybe Sap knows, it's about his neighbors): Why did New Zealand abandon it's original design they had on dollar coins, 1979 - 1982, and returned to the Machin's effigy? |
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I've never heard of the British Antarctic Territory and their coinage. I found this article: The British Antarctic Territory made history in 2008 when it became the first territory in the Antarctic to issue a coin under its own authority. http://www.pobjoy.com/ukworld/section.php/684/0Here's a photo of a coin I think would be interesting to have.  |
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Israel
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Sorry I see these have already been mentioned by Sap (I should have known)
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How about this one? Does anybody recognize it?   |
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United States
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For a brief description of the Queen Elizabeth II effigy on Canadian coins - Faces of the Monarch http://www.mint.ca/store/mint/learn...arch-1100026And here is a page I just ran across which covers QE II on coinage of Gibraltar - Changing Portraits on the Obverse http://www.treasury.gov.gi/gibralta...ortraits.htmOf course, neither sites (including the site listed by svslav) mentions the crowned effigy sculpted by Cecil Thomas and which appears on the coins of Hong Kong, the East Caribbean, Belize, etc.... EDIT: Here is another effigy from Canada....  Edited by usagigoya
06/29/2010 06:44 am
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Turtleoverhead, I do recognize that one! I think it was made in the United Britain of Hot Tub Time Machine. You need to go to the Krause Unusual Coins book for that one. I think its number is KMChina4.
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