Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Crown Comemorative Coin Mystery

Can you provide pictures of the coin?

Can you provide pictures of your grandmother?


(just kidding)

If your great grandmother was 50 in 1977, then she was not a child during any part of QW2's reign.

They made over 37 million of these (not enough for 1 each of Great Britain's 56 million population in 1977).

They were issued at face value of 25 pence.

That's the one! What year was it handed out? If it was a little latter then the actual date on the coin it would make sense but if it was distributed on 1977 then I am at a loss. My granny had given birth to my mother a little while before and she wasn't in school yet.

Who knows? Maybe it was given to her as a present from her daughter or grand-daughter.

It's value is hidden in a riddle, see that crown on the back? Guess what it means... That's right! You guessed it, it's worth 1 crown or 25 pence/ a quarter/25 cents.

It was made in the British empire to celebrate the silver jubilee of queen Elizabeth II. I'm guessing they were made all around the empire as to cut shipping costs. From my reasearch it was released in America, Great Britain and a couple of other places. So in that case it would not have a country on it because it belongs to an empire, not a country.

The only part I'm not sure about is the handouts.

(And yes, that is a spoon, don't question it because I am also at a loss)

These coins are very common; I don't know if they were given away to schoolchildren in Britain, but they wouldn't have been given away to schoolchildren anywhere else as it's a British coin; other countries may have given away their own medals, but Australia did not. And South Africa certainly would not have, as in 1977 they were a Republic, deep in the Apartheid era.

It's possible your great-grandmother was given a medal as a schoolchild; just that it wasn't this particular piece. A schoolchild medal for someone your great-grandmother's age would likely have been a George VI coronation piece, or perhaps a WWII victory medal.

Here in Australia, every schoolchild was given a nationally-produced medal in 1951 for the jubilee of Federation (both of my parents were given one), and again in 1988 for the bicentenary of settlement (I was given one of those) and 2001 for the centenary of Federation. Local regions may have issued additional medals for distribution at certain events; my mother, a schoolgirl in Rockhampton in 1953, was given a medal specifically made for the coronation by the Rockhampton council; as my dad was a schoolboy in Brisbane, he didn't get one of those medals.


The two objects depicted in the centre of the reverse of this coin are part of the Crown Jewels of Great Britain - they are both implements used in the coronation ceremony. The thing with the bird on it is the Ampulla, the ornamental flask used to hold the oil the sovereign is anointed with during the ceremony. The "spoon" is the Coronation Spoon, used to do the anointing with, and dates from the 1100s; it is the oldest surviving piece of royal regalia, being one of the few pieces to survive intact during the overthrow of the monarchy during the Commonwealth period, when most of the crown jewels were melted down and sold for scrap.

Thank you sap, it was definantly that coin, mabye it was given to her by someone from Britain, who knows. I'll ask my grandmother to see if she knows anything about it.
(And I can tell you it is not silver proof or silver, just normal.)