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Canada
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I am looking to see if there was ever a Prime Minister series of coins or tokens put out. I found a medallic art company in London that put out 6 gold medals but not a set.
A gas station in Canada used to give out medallions of our Prime Ministers a while ago so I want to see if I can find a Great Britain equivalent.
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 Australia
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Remember, the office of "Prime Minister" goes back quite a long way further in Britain than it does in Canada. And there is academic debate about exactly when it began, since the office was not created by Constitution or Decree but rather gradually evolved, along with the role of Parliament in government. People were effectively doing the job of PM long before they were actually called that.
For a long time, really up until the 20th century and with a few notable exceptions such as William Pitt and Lord Melbourne, the everyday public face and figurehead of the government was the monarch, with the PM much more like a background bureaucrat. So finding medals featuring the series of English/British monarchs is much easier than a series of medals featuring PMs.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Germany
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I don't think PMs would be that popular to be honest, we don't revere them, more having a tendency to hate them. Some of the longer serving ones are hated, like Thatcher and Blair for example.
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Germany
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The only one I can think of is the Churchill, and those were minted in the millions and can be picked up for around 50p per dozen as no one wants them
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 Canada
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Sap and augsburger, that makes sense. What I am really looking for is a medal/token that bares the likeness of Bonar Law.
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Australia
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AH. Yes, that'll be tricky. He was not Prime Minister for long, retiring due to ill health (terminal throat cancer), but unfortunately (from the point of view of his historical legacy) he did not actually die in office; there probably would have been a swag of commemorative medals for him if that had happened. I'll try to remember to have a look in my copy of Eimer this weekend, but I wouldn't hold out much hope.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Canada
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I had to look up who Christopher Eimer was. Sadly my knowledge of the exonumia of our motherland is lacking. Thank you for the help Sap. I am not expecting much in the way of medals/tokens/coins but even finding out one exists would be a thrill.
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Australia
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Just looked it up, and don;t see any medals depicting or naming him listed in the catalogue. Sorry.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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United Kingdom
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I checked MH Grant's "British Medals since 1760" in British Numismatic Journal - the nearest thing to a comprehensive medal catalogue for the first half of the 20th Century. There were no contemporaneous medals commemorating Bonar Law issued in the 1920s as far as I can see, sorry. http://www.britnumsoc.org/publicati...NJ_23_24.pdf (Page 462) |
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