Another To Identify Please | British Florin 1950

Yes, Great Britain makes the only coins with British monarchs on them that don't actually show the name of the country.

Technically, this coin does make mention of the country of issue: "BR:OMN:" is abbreviated Latin for "Of all the Britains", the British Isles. The Latin abbreviations ANGL (England) and later MAG BRIT (Great Britain), BRITT (the Britains) and finally BRITT OMN (all the Britains) were constant features of English and British coins from mediaeval times up until early in the reign of Elizabeth II; it is only most of her coins which make no mention of the country in the Latin titles. As I understand it, the reference was dropped so as not to offend the Irish (who are, geographically, living on a part of one of the "British Isles" but no longer part of the British monarchy). As you can tell from the Wikipedia page on the subject, calling the entire archipelago "the British Isles" is not politically correct in Ireland.

It's true, some Colonial and Dominion coinage (such as that of Australia) also included "BRITT" or "BR:OMN:" in the legend, but in this case the large "AUSTRALIA" on the reverse trumps the references to Britain on the obverse.

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