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So for some bizarre reason (my wife would say because I'm nuts/weird) I get to thinking, "What person has the most reproductions of their visage?" Because of the Lincoln Penny, five dollar bill, and several postage stamps, I would say Abraham Lincoln. Perhaps though I'm overlooking someone. Doesn't have to be an American. Jesus perhaps? Buddha? On a semi-related note, anyone know how many Lincoln pennies have been minted to date? |
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Queen Elizabeth II gets my vote!
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The number of Lincoln cents minted is certainly calculable. I quickly eyeballed mintage stats since 1965 and come up with a half trillion (500,000,000,000), a number that really surprised me (I hadn't realized we've been over 5 billion for every year of the last fifty!). Maybe there were another 100 billion issued before that, so half trillion is a good rough number to use.
I'm not sure there is another country with such a long run of such a high mintage type with the same person pictured.
If we look elsewhere, Queen Elizabeth and Queen Victoria show up on an awful lot of coins because of the large number of countries in the British EMpire and then the Commonwealth.
IN medieval times, it probably would have been John the Baptist (not Jesus) because he showed up on florins that were issued for a few hundred years.
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01/27/2019 1:35 pm
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I'm sure it's Queen Elizabeth II. Has to be.
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I'm sure it's Queen Elizabeth II. Has to be. For coins, I am pretty confident the answer is Lincoln. As mentioned above, there were well over 500 billion pennies made with Lincoln's image. Over the last 50 years, the average is 9.4 billion per year. For QEII: - Canada exceeded 2 billion mintage only one year, 2006 - U.K. exceeded 2 billion only 6 years as best I can tell (1971, 1990, 1992, 200, 2001, 2014) Over the last 50 years, these two combined averaged under 2 billion/year. If we take stamps, paper currency, etc. into account, maybe QEII comes out ahead due to the large number of other countries using her image. Edited by tdziemia
01/27/2019 1:31 pm
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Yeah. I bet you are correct then.
She'd win for most different coins minted on and greatest circulation area.
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01/27/2019 2:00 pm
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For coins, banknotes and stamps combined it is QEII hands down. If you are just talking about coins, then Lincoln because of the 4-13 billion US pennies made every year.
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This prior CCF thread covered a related, but different question:
That was a fun read! They touched both on the "whose mug was minted most OFTEN on coins (mintage)" AND "whose mug was on the most different TYPES if coins." There, too, Lincoln was the answer to the first question; Elizabeth was the winner of the second. The coins/notes/stamps angle makes it a lot harder to gather the data. |
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I think Queen Elizabeth 11.
Her image in various forms has appeared on banknotes, stamps as well as coins, of the British Isles as well as a very large number of British Commonwealth countries for a period of over 65 years.
That is is lot of time, and for a lot of countries.
Curiously, her image has never appeared on the coins of the British Commonwealth Country of India, the 2nd most populous Country in the World. India became independent from Britain, before she became Queen.
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in Canada QE2 is on all coinage, not just 1 like Lincoln. this is the same with all the commonwealth countries. not to mention all our RCM commemoratives coins. |
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Same here in Australia too. I just did a quick total of all mintages of the coins I have in my collection
and I came up with about 16 billion coins. That is only the decimals and QE2 was on the coins before that,
and I don't have all the decimals either.
Steve :)
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I just did a quick total on the Canadian one cent coins that I have and there's another 31.5 billion.
Steve :)
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I still think the >~600 billion Lincoln cents alone far outnumber all coins, bills, stamps, etc. ever made depicting QEII
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