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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Do you think there will be any updated effigy of the Queen on Canadian coins before Prince Charles takes the throne in the future? To date, my favourite effigy of the Queen is from 1953 to 1964. What are your thoughts?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I thought there was one coming like next year? Or is that just in the UK?
My favorite is the one that debuted in 1965.
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Valued Member
Canada
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I'd like to see a new one, never liked the Blunt portrait, but if RCM hasn't planned one already it hardly seems likely. My favourite is the same as hcmusicguy, 1965-1989 |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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I'm not a fan of the Blunt portrait either. The 1965-1989 portrait wasn't bad at all.
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 Canada
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Easy on her Majesty! She could well out live " bat ears "  . Remember the Queen Mom lived to be over a hundred. The way all of us older dealer guys are going she is going to out live most of us. I am in Britain right now on a buying trip and got a bunch of the polymer New Fivers with Churchill , the Queen still looks really youthful on that note. |
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Australia
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The latest mature effigy of Elizabeth 11 for use on coinage was issued on March 2nd, 2015. It is up to the various Mints around the British Commonwealth and The Royal Mint to decide if they wish to use it. My favorite effigy of Elizabeth 11 was designed by Raphael Maclouf, as used on British homeland circulating coinage from 1985 until 1997. I am not keen on some of the effigies used on Canadian circulating coinage, that differ from those used by The Royal Mint on homeland coinage. |
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Australia
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Anything would be an improvement on the "Cleaning Lady" portrait that adorns Canadian coinage at the moment  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Is there a specific reason as to when the effigy is changed? Or is it some arbitrary thing that happens at the respective mints whim? I was just looking at the newest Australia Koala coin and I think that effigy is quite an improvement than the current one on Canadian coins.
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10/07/2016 9:25 pm
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Canada
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Or is it some arbitrary thing that happens at the respective mints whim? I believe this to be the case. Apart from a change of Monarch they seem to be able to change when they want. Canada's QEII effigy changes: 1953-1964 (12 years) 1965-1989 (25 years) 1990-2002 (13 years) 2003-current (14 years + counting) |
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Whether we like any particular effigy or not I guess we should be thankful our coins obverses are dynamic.
The dead presidents images can really never change, they can only be replaced by the more recently deceased.
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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10/08/2016 02:29 am
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Aw, I don't know about that!  Dead people tend to decay after death!  Perhaps such a subject would NOT be the best to be displayed on the obverse of our coins.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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So when Prince Charles becomes King, how soon would coins that bear his image enter circulation after the Queen's passing?
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Canada
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So when Prince Charles becomes King, how soon would coins that bear his image enter circulation after the Queen's passing? The following year, at least that's how it's been done since Queen Victoria died. |
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United States
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I wonder if they have any designs prepared in advance or if it's something they will do after the time has come?
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Australia
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Russian Federation
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I wonder if she's going to take the route of Belgium and the Netherlands and abdicate in favor of her son George VII* before she gets serious old-age problems.
Realistically, however, I expect that she'd rule for a good long while yet, and get at least as old as her mother.
*Because, come on, he's not going to be Charles III after what happened to the first two, he's not going to be Philip II because the first Philip (the Spanish Armada guy) also wasn't particularly popular, and he's not going to be Arthur II because numbering doesn't work that way but nobody will allow him to be Arthur I either.
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Posted 10/07/2016 12:58 pm
