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Posted 01/28/2019 9:02 pm
My childhood collection contained an unusual proportion of Elizabeth II coins for an American kid. Every continent, as many countries as I could find. SO I am well aware of the reach.
But these days I go by the numbers, and the Lincoln Cent wins.
I have looked at the mintage figures for the U.K., Canada and Australia. The combined number of coins issued by these countries with the image of Queen Elizabeth is no more than 200 billion. I have posted some supporting figures earlier, but if someone wants to challenge that, please have at it (as for Australia, which I did not address earlier, I do not see a single year with total mintages of all types exceeding 1 billion)..
I have not looked at other Commonwealth countries, but I cannot imagine they would triple this number.
So for coins, it is Lincoln (notwithstanding my personal admiration for Queen Elizabeth regardless of mintage statistics).
But these days I go by the numbers, and the Lincoln Cent wins.
I have looked at the mintage figures for the U.K., Canada and Australia. The combined number of coins issued by these countries with the image of Queen Elizabeth is no more than 200 billion. I have posted some supporting figures earlier, but if someone wants to challenge that, please have at it (as for Australia, which I did not address earlier, I do not see a single year with total mintages of all types exceeding 1 billion)..
I have not looked at other Commonwealth countries, but I cannot imagine they would triple this number.
So for coins, it is Lincoln (notwithstanding my personal admiration for Queen Elizabeth regardless of mintage statistics).
