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Pillar of the Community
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Why was the old effigy portrait changed mid year in 2003 with the new effigy? Why not have waited until 2004 to make the change to the new effigy? What are the mintage numbers for the 2003 old effigy coins?
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Valued Member
United States
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I assumed simply to help create interest among the public, but that's just a guess
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Hi David
My personal opinion on this is that the mint wanted to give the Coins Collectors more fun to look for the proper coin as they issue two type of effigy the same year.
Andre
Edited by andre1621
05/15/2008 8:14 pm
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Canada
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Hi David
This may answer your question on the new and old effigy why they have changed in the same year.
The effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II changed in 1990 when she was 64 years old. Canadian authorities commissioned Dora de Pedery-Hunt, a Toronto artist and sculptor, to design a new one. Her portrait depicts Elizabeth facing right, wearing teardrop earrings and a diamond necklace. The diamonds of the actual necklace, which was originally made for Queen Victoria, weigh 161 carats. The Queen also wears a diamond crown made for George IV. It is decorated with roses, shamrock and thistle, the floral emblems of the United Kingdom. The result is a pleasing, realistic portrait of the Queen.
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Could it be that 2003 was the 50th Anniversary of the Coronation and therefore as said, the RCM wanted to create some interest in the coins that focused on the Queen. Australia changed to the Ian Rank-Broadley effigy late in 1998 but only new non-circulating issues changed, circulation issues changed for the start of 1999. We have though, seen modification to this obverse occur part way through a year and this has given us two or even three varieties of the obverse and sometimes reverse for that year on all or some circulation denominations. |
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Hey Wayne What is written above came from a site that I found this I why the effigy was changed in 2003.and if I'm not mistaken the 50th Anniversary of the Coronation was in 1952-2002 with in this years the mint issue set from the $ 2.00 to the penny with double date on them.  Here is the link>>>>>> http://personal.telefonica.terra.es...en/o1990.htmAlso on this link you will find lots of info on Canadian coins. Edited by andre1621
05/16/2008 7:54 pm
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Valued Member
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The 50th Anniversary of the Accession was in 2002 eg 1952 to 2002 and the 50th Anniversary of the Coronation was 2003 eg 1953 to 2003.
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Pillar of the Community
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You are right Wayne I'm getting mist up here tonight much golfing today that could be the cause.  |
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I guess I am just confused why they even produced the old effigy and not the new effigy from the get go but instead we have two different effigy's for that year.
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United States
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My guess is that they started producing them once they had the dies ready. The mint has for many years now, minted coins (of the same date) across more than one year, so starting something in the middle of a year is not new to them. Its just that with a change in obverse, it becomes obvious.
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I think it would have made more sense to introduce the new effigy starting with 2004 instead of having two different effigy's in 2003.
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United States
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Yes, that would have made sense.
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