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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I have been wondering why there is a different design/portrait on my 1872 quarter and 1872 shilling. I guess I was thinking the queen would have approved which portrait to use on coins and she would want the one she liked best to go on all the coins .. Seeing how they are not .. I must be guessing wrong. Does anyone know the official reason.   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I have only a guess: it was thought that the queen should emphasize her regality in ex-Great Britain coinage of the U.K. So a portrait of her wearing a crown was used. You can see this with kings, as well, I seem to remember (e.g. New Zealand ?)
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When the image changes, there are several designs approved by the queen ( or representatives) that each commonwealth country can use on their currency.
I don't think there is any specific rule of thumb as to which image is in the UK and which is in Canada
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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The colonies often had a different portrait than the UK.
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Australia
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The Indian portrait designs for the same era are interesting as well. The Queen appears to change ethnicity on some of the designs and she has a definite Indian "Look" and on other coins there is the classic portrait .   |
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
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Nice looking coins trout1107
I will have to start looking for the different design types.
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In 1949 Newfoundland became a Province of Canada, prior to that it was a Colony and picked a different George VI crowned obverse from Canadian coinage. See the 1941 5 Cents from Newfoundland and 1940 1 Cent from Canada, no Canadian coin in circulation had a crowned KGVI obverse. Percy Metcalfe design of crowned King George VI  Henry Paget design of uncrowned King George VI  Edited by SilverDon
11/19/2016 9:43 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I have a few Newfoundland coins ..l but none as nice as that one SilverDon
I guess I have seen a lot of the different designed coins, I guess I always
thought the designs were different for different years ...
Knowing this now, gives me new ideas on picking up different world coins.
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 United States
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Very interesting discussion. I do not think I ever picked up on this before.
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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@ GR58..Which design do YOU like the best?
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Australia
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I don't know about GR58 But this is the one I like the least. This one is a "shocker"  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Which do I like best ...
Over morning coffee .. I started looking through my collection and wondering
the same thing.
I hope to take some pictures today ...
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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Yeah, I have to agree Trout, those are real bad I don't know who picked them out but, I'm sure they could have done better.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I don't have one .. but I am thinking I like the Gothic crown the best. I did take a look at my Newfoundland coins. I didn't find a 1872 ... but I do have a 1876, which has the same design as the 1872. I do like this design better than the first two I posted. 1876 H Newfoundland 20 cents   Edited by GR58
11/20/2016 10:07 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Many times I wonder what coins circulated in North America,
in the 1800's.
I know even today near the border of the U.S. and Canada
coins for each are often found circulating.
In Canada did Great Britain/UK coins circulate?
I think I read that the 20 cent Newfoundland coins were
worth 10 pence.
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11/20/2016 11:17 am
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Posted 11/19/2016 4:22 pm
